Sentence examples for need to legitimize from inspiring English sources

I had hoped and assumed this meant she wouldn't be plundering the American Songbook, though she'd be welcome to it; she's the rare older pop artist who doesn't need to legitimize herself with acknowledged classics.

In the early 1980's, inspired by the religious overtones of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan and a need to legitimize his power, seized in a coup, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul Haq allied himself with this country's religious leaders.

Some blame the state and its need to legitimize deeply unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is clearly tied to a desperate need to legitimize a pathological love of guns, even in the case of a series of bombings.

The inherent racism that runs through American systems grew out of a need to legitimize, preserve and later replace slavery with less obvious forms of subjugation.

Almost every evil in the world can be explained in terms of peoples' needs to legitimize themselves.

Leadership at the departmental level needs to legitimize and support mentoring of undergraduates, so both mentors and mentees are working within a supportive environment.

We want to legitimize ourselves".

"We do not want to legitimize what is illegitimate".

"They don't want to legitimize this regime," she said.

Does the United States want to legitimize the use of cyberweapons as a covert tool?