Nothing can legitimize violence.

There are many ways to legitimize political arrangements.

Prosperity was supposed to legitimize the European Union.

They need social protections and safety nets to legitimize distributional outcomes.

Ahmedinejad pursues a dual objective with his anti Zionist obsession to de legitimize Israel and to re legitimize Iran s claim to speak for Muslims over the heads of their more cautious governments.

Within Cuba, he hopes to legitimize his government by improving standards of living.

Former perpetrators often try to de legitimize their former victims moral superiority by claiming they were victims themselves.

If they are not, this should open the door to international protection and legitimize their classification as refugee.

So the agreement may legitimize and produce an arms race in South America, which is in no one s interest.

Some radicals in Russia have rejected this historical determinism, arguing that we should not legitimize authoritarianism by reference to history.

Often, leaders seek the engagement only to legitimize their rule, in which case the foreign adviser should simply stay away.

The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war making by democracies in order to spread democracy!

Such a forum would legitimize genuine religious disputes while exposing and marginalizing religious fundamentalists who revert to terror to advance their cause.

Some radicals in Russia have rejected this historical determinism, arguing that we should not legitimize authoritarianism by reference to history. Protests were growing.

While any definition of terrorism has problems at the margins, the core of terrorism is clear enough to permit efforts to de legitimize it.

Israel is concerned that by maintaining contacts with terrorist organizations in the area, including Hezbollah, UNIFIL serves rather to legitimize the role of these organizations.

General Zia s harsh version of the law in Pakistan was adopted as part of his effort to use Islam to legitimize his suppression of all dissent.

The result is widespread invocation by governments of religious norms, and to a lesser extent references to tradition, in order to legitimize the continuation of patriarchal rule.

The impudence of the aggressor has gone so far that it has established a post called president of the Nagorno Karabakh republic and tries to legitimize it.

It has become more rigorous in it s applications due to the influence ofmilitant Islam, which seeks to use religious texts to legitimize escalating brutality, especially against women.

Most agree that it offered a way to consolidate and legitimize a state s rule over a group of people, whether defined by a common language, culture, or ethnicity.

Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over indebted countries sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.

Consequently, those who are more interested in arbitrary authority than legality are using the language of law to legitimize their actions and weakening the rule of law in the process.

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

Within Cuba, he hopes to legitimize his government by improving standards of living. Outside of Cuba, he does not want to be held captive by Cuba s one international supporter Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Moreover, Putin s Kremlin has used the West eager for engagement and a policy reset with Russia to legitimize its authoritarian rule and to provide opportunities for its venal cronies integration into Western society.

At the same time, attempts are being made to legitimize the separatist terrorist regime established in the occupied territories from time to time elections are held to the power bodies of the puppet regime.

Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.

I believe that Calderón declared this war because he felt the need to legitimize himself before Mexico s people, given the doubts surrounding his victory in the 2006 presidential election doubts that his supporters, like me, never shared.

In 2014, four main opposition groups, including Alwefaq, boycotted the parliamentary elections that took place in November, protesting the lack of desire for a political solution within the government, and said their participation would legitimize the corrupt system.

According to this view, if Iran wants to de legitimize Israel and ultimately unite Moslems against the West, the only answer is to isolate Iran in the Middle East, and to create alliances against Iran with moderate Sunni Arab regimes.

One of the many reasons for which the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela did not accept the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60 1) was because of the considerable step backwards in the area of the fight against HIV AIDS that it would legitimize.

Furthermore, the separatist regimes continue their attempts to legitimize the results of ethnic cleansing affirmed by the Budapest, Lisbon and Istanbul Summits of the OSCE the latest illustration of which is the en mass appropriation of homes of forcibly exiled Georgian population.

As to the State party's arguments on the victim requirement, he claims that failure to consider the case on the merits on this reason alone would legitimize the violation of his rights, and encourage the authorities temporarily to change an individual's circumstances.

He has also noted that the increase in violence and openly racist incidents is illustrated not only by the actions of some supporters, but also by the comments and behaviour of coaches of famous teams who trivialize or legitimize racist or xenophobic incidents.

(iv) Application of the principle of secularism must be subject to particular vigilance so as not to generate or legitimize new forms of discrimination and, above all, not to constitute an obstacle to full participation in public life by believers and practitioners of various religions

A new social contract will not appear out of thin air. Now is the time for the new European Commission to propose and the new European Council and European Parliament to endorse a political pact to legitimize and sustain the reforms needed to solve Europe s economic problems.

As a result, legality has emerged as the main source of political legitimacy in the modern world. Consequently, those who are more interested in arbitrary authority than legality are using the language of law to legitimize their actions and weakening the rule of law in the process.

And the winners will probably try their best to block the Islamist forces from a comeback, implying another cycle of no holds barred political and perhaps physical combat, in which democracy serves as a mask to legitimize the exclusion, and possibly the destruction, of one s political opponents.

There is a high degree of indoctrination, whereby the children are trained from a young age to be subservient to the State and its ideology, in addition to pervasive instrumentalization of the young population by the authorities in order to legitimize and perpetuate the political modus vivendi.

In order to deal effectively and radically with terrorism, we must agree on a definition of a number of elements that are closely related to it, including suicide and the culture of terrorism, the financing of terrorism, advocacy and propaganda that attempt to legitimize terrorism, perpetrators of terrorist acts and State terrorism.

The United Nations can play an important role in helping to legitimize and implement agreements among countries, but even its closest friends admit that its large size, rigid regional blocs, formal diplomatic procedures, and cumbersome bureaucracy often impede consensus As one sage put it, the problem for multilateral organizations is how to get everyone into the act and still get action.