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Meanings of legitimize in English
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Examples for "legitimate"
Examples for "legitimate"
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Good luck avoiding the appearance of turnabout, however legally legitimate the process.
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The government says it does not curb legitimate criticism or free speech.
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Puigdemont, however, insists that the region has a legitimate right to independence.
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There could be legitimate differences about policy and institutional matters affecting Europe.
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Media Centers In the past year, digital streaming services finally became legitimate.
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The deals come as Canada moves to legalize cannabis for recreational use.
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Massachusetts in 2003 became the first U.S. state to legalize gay marriage.
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A bid to legalize recreational marijuana narrowly failed about four years ago.
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Backers have tried numerous times to legalize aid-in-dying in California, without success.
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Efforts over the years to legalize on-track sports-wagering have been similarly thwarted.
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Australia's Parliament has voted to legalise same-sex marriage after days of debate.
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He said most countries did not legalise the drug for safety reasons.
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Her story comes as assembly members backed calls to legalise medicinal cannabis.
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The lower house of the Uruguayan Congress has voted to legalise marijuana.
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Proposed amendments before Parliament, if passed, would legalise male same sex relations.
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Indeed, we have to legitimise fear in order to make necessary changes.
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You don't even have the cultural background that could legitimise religious belief.
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The impact of this strategy is to legitimise those driven by hatred.
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They agree the law has to change to legitimise the tactics.
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This is the sanction invoked to legitimise every adventure in invasion and colonisation.
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Mexico City was the first area in the country to decriminalise abortion.
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And she called on the government to decriminalise personal drug use.
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The Green Party is also welcoming the proposals to decriminalise abortion.
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She said it did not decriminalise the possession of illicit drugs.
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In 1997, this newspaper launched a campaign to decriminalise the drug.
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The mayor's press release clarifies the new legislation won't decriminalize or legalize weed.
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REUTERS: What steps are you taking to try and decriminalize polygamy?
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He would decriminalize unauthorized immigration and streamline the process for applying for citizenship.
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When enacted, Jamaica's new law will decriminalize marijuana for religious, medicinal, therapeutic and scientific purposes.
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We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.
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The king had made the Parliament legitimatize the Duke of Maine, Mdlle.
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She persuaded the king to legitimatize their children, who were confided to Mme.
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Our marriage would legitimatize this poor boy, who as yet knows nothing of his position.
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He proposed that I should marry him to take care of him and legitimatize our child.
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For that you must legitimatize her birth; for that, your highness, you must espouse the Countess M'Gregor.
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But as a matter of duty, marry the girl at once, and legitimatise your child while the chance remains to you.
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His Holiness at once despatched a courier to Duke Cosimo, urging him to legitimatise the child by his immediate marriage with the mother.
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Madame Diane, natural daughter of King Henry II, afterwards legitimatised and made Duchess d'Angoulême.
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She might have been legitimatised by act of parliament, if Catherine would have submitted.
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The Kings of England, in legitimatising their children gave them a name and arms, which pass to their posterity.
Usage of legitimize in English
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The extra coin could go a long way to legitimize web entertainment.
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Sensitization of both general public and government is essential to legitimize this occupation.
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Recent foreign visits by the Taliban may help legitimize the group, they say.
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Marcos was widely accused of exploiting village council leaders to legitimize his rule.
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On Sunday, the Bears finally got a win to help legitimize that improvement.
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JC is psyched as well, which also helps legitimize the area.
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The courts divine would legitimize themselves by discrediting the courts civil.
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If I cannot legitimize our former relations at least I can assist you.
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Fathers have an obligation to legitimize their children and continually validate their equal importance.
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By delineating the development, the show also hopes to legitimize the market for it.
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Tells about his efforts to legitimize his election & discredit his opponent Corazon Aquino.
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He has really been released only to legitimize Putin's candidate.
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Some commentators have suggested such frameworks could also legitimize censorship.
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Tommy Morris and Davie Strath helped legitimize professional golf in that summer of 1873.
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He could meet her, and by marriage, legitimize his child.
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It's all lawful now-exceptfor our abominable English law that doesn't legitimize the children.
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