Sentence examples for to legitimize himself from inspiring English sources

He knew the best way to legitimize himself was to identify with the heroes of the ancient past.

Or, he joked, entering an elevator in the Art Deco City Center building on West 56th Street on his way to a "Damn Yankees" rehearsal, he could just bypass all that with a one-line Playbill bio: "Sean Hayes is doing theater to legitimize himself as an actor".

"I reckon Afweyne wanted to legitimize himself internationally," he said.

The conspiracy rhetoric he uses to legitimize himself as president threatens the fragile trust that legitimizes his government.

He has used professional alliances to legitimize himself by association, and thereby be able to continue creating more harm.

What he "uses to legitimize himself as president threatens the fragile trust that legitimizes his government," she says.

American officials had previously vowed to keep diplomats in Venezuela to legitimize Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who declared himself the interim president in January.

General Musharraf made himself president in 2001, then sought to legitimize his self-elevation with a referendum last year in which he won 98percentt of the vote.

Graham's oratorical skills, combined with his refusal to deviate from his preaching mission and to involve himself in theological controversies, did much to legitimize Evangelicals with the public.

Like Nobunaga, Hideyoshi felt constrained by lineage not to make himself shogun and thus sought other titles to legitimize his rule.

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.