Sentence examples for trying to legitimize from inspiring English sources

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

"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.

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.

Again, guessing how the states will vote in November is not the way primaries are resolved, but the Clinton camp has been trying to legitimize this view for months and is hoping it might prove persuasive to superdelegates.

Whatever you want to call it, TV is as good as it's ever been if not better, and has finally achieved a level of respect that the medium has been striving for basically since the 1950s and yet there's been very little done in terms of canonization, in terms of trying to legitimize it through other forms.

In a way, it seems as though Jawbone could be trying to legitimize itself as a maker of full-fledged health monitoring devices rather than just quantified self gadgets.

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

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

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.

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