From the middle of the 19th century, successive Venezuelan governments have worked to legitimize themselves by invoking El Libertador's image.
Based in Vancouver and Montreal, the Binners' Project works to legitimize binners, destigmatize the work they do and recognize the thousands of pounds of waste they help divert from landfills.
BitTorrent's name may still be associated with piracy, but BitTorrent the company has been working to legitimize the peer-to-peer technology as a tool that can be used to distribute content in legal ways.
The center is also working to legitimize art forms -- traditionally used by women -- such as personal biography, which has often been discounted in the larger art world.
Qorvis, which also represents the government of Bahrain and drew heat for defending that country's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2011, has worked to legitimize the ruling family.
He added that the regulator will find that most companies are working to legitimize Bitcoin and "want to build bridges that help regulators understand and support these financial innovations".
HANN, which consists of two 18 year olds, Chris Designs and Lil Livee, both known for providing beats for a variety of litefeet dance crew around the city, are working to legitimize their sound through actual releases, like their Unknown Genre EP which drops this week.
Outlandish as some of his ideas were, his work helped to legitimize the art of puppeteering, says former employee Christine Papalexis, who worked at the theater in the 1980s and who, like Baker, served for a time as president of the LA Guild of Puppetry.
But how efficient the 'Gülen card' will work abroad to legitimize the wreckage the post-putch purge and mass arrests and whether or not it at all will help repair Turkey's utterly weakened image is another question, which can not be answered as long as we are not offered credible data on who really was behind the coup attempt, and why.
