Sentence examples for served to legitimize from inspiring English sources

Voting, even protest-voting for Sobchak, served to legitimize the election and, in particular, to affirm Putin's right to pick his own opponents.

Mr. Silajdzic, who as Bosnia's wartime foreign minister was at Dayton, argued in an interview that the institutional structure created there had served to legitimize the genocidal policy of the Serbs during the war.

And it probably isn't lost on anyone who is considering a presidential campaign in this political climate that all the trappings of government that have traditionally served to legitimize a lesser-known candidate -- security details, official planes, press conferences held on the Capitol steps -- may be about as helpful with primary voters now as a disfiguring rash.

Far from being a first step toward the elimination of female genital mutilation, this trend has only served to legitimize it, by suggesting that the problem lies in the undesirable "side effects" rather than in the violation of the bodily integrity of girls and women.

In the work of later thinkers, including Ibn Kammuna, the evaluation of hads served to legitimize alchemy and astrology and, more generally, to blur the distinction between demonstrative knowledge and revelation.

This report not only recognized the arts as essential to education, it served to legitimize arts education.

They also serve to legitimize the acts of those who wield power, a function that is performed to some extent even by elections that are noncompetitive.

The propaganda machine that has turned Mr. Chávez into a religious talisman will not necessarily serve to legitimize the many pretenders, including his chosen successor, Vice President Nicolás Maduro, who are waiting to inherit his charismatic legacy.

She posted a statement online in which she said that she "could not, with any integrity, participate in such a sham that would only serve to legitimize the false narrative that the government is working to end police brutality and the institutional racism that fuels it".

All this serves to legitimize MySpace's chaotic namespace with actual names of actual people.

The coalition believes this proposal would only serve to legitimize a platform they believe would make housing even more scarce and further drive up costs.