Sentence examples for try to legitimatize from inspiring English sources

Actually, the prickly nationalism of many Chinese may have less to do with their newfound prosperity than with China's fraught combination of political autocracy and economic liberalism: nationalism and economic boosterism are all the autocrats have at their disposal to try to legitimatize their continuing monopoly on power.

In a sense, before the missile strikes, by being the one country trying to legitimatize the Taliban in the eyes of the international community, they were trying to get a U.N. seat for bin Laden".

In a sense, before the missile strikes, by being the one country trying to legitimatize the Taliban in the eyes of the international community, they were trying to get a U.N. seat for bin Laden". Salahuddin laughed.

China's first participation in the Olympic Games came about largely for diplomatic reasons, when Japan tried to legitimatize its control of Manchukuo with a plan to send a team to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics to represent that puppet state.

She did not seek to legitimatize her role by calling it something else.

Tom, at his mother's bidding, brings home a date for Laura — an attempt to legitimatize her — but Jim can't follow through; he's involved with another girl.

(He's a ghost of the past, heard at 78 r.p.m). Tom, at his mother's bidding, brings home a date for Laura an attempt to legitimatize her but Jim can't follow through; he's involved with another girl.

Her brother, Tom Zachary Quintoo), at his mother's bidding, brings home a date for Laura — an attempt to legitimatize her — but Jim (the Gentleman Caller, played by Brian J. Smith) can't follow through; he's involved with another girl.

Seemingly an attempt to legitimatize its operation in the eyes of the West, its battles continue on the ground regardless, and its ultimate aims defeat of Assad, control of Syria remain unchanged.

"Try to?

Try, just try, to listen, to understand.