Sentence examples for try to legitimize from inspiring English sources

This unvarnished voyeurism doesn't try to legitimize our prurience with a call to action.

"The government will try to legitimize itself with [the pope's] visit," said Bernardo Barranco, a columnist and church observer.

Not surprisingly, he suggests that the United States try to legitimize its authority through the United Nations.

Even so, while Mr. Naranjo adds some real, grim statistics to the fictionalized mix, he doesn't try to legitimize the story with documentary verismo.

Analysts say the party has increasingly turned away from traditional Communist ideology and toward nationalism to try to legitimize itself in the eyes of Chinese citizens.

STONY BROOK Charles B. Wang Center "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," examination of the Nazi leadership's use of science to try to legitimize persecution and murder.

Under the cover of speaking truth to power, Mr. Sarrazin has tried to legitimize hate speech, his critics say.

10 P.M. (FX) SONS OF ANARCHY Season 6 begins as Jax (Charlie Hunnam) tries to legitimize Samcro's business dealings.

Mrs. Belmont, who was trying to legitimize her new money with old-looking rooms, probably would not have minded her dealer's deceptions.

In the middle of this struggle are proponents, like the art research firm Skate's, that are trying to legitimize the emerging movement by making the market more transparent and providing guidance to investors new to the art world.

"The trigger happy NCOs of the Malian Army are now too busy trying to legitimize their coup to even think of fighting the rebels," Baz Lecocq, a Dutch professor of African history, wrote last week.