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The majority of the population fiercely oppose going to the polls to legitimize the military’s political control, so we will see violence ratchet up if the regime seeks to impose a vote, and resistance groups seek to disrupt them. – Richard Horsey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We won’t allow President Putin to exploit events on the world stage to legitimize his illegal invasion of Ukraine. – Nadine Dorries	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not just a sports event. The Chinese government is using the event to showcase the country to legitimize the standing of the country, to legitimize its policies, including the many human rights abuses, to be part of that is to be used as a tool by the Chinese Communist Party to legitimize its abuses. Including the situation in Xinjiang. – Yaqiu Wang	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Beijing is clearly using this opportunity to legitimize its human rights abuses in the country, don't be part of that. Stay away from that. – Yaqiu Wang	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To be part of that is to be used as a tool by the Chinese Communist Party to legitimize its abuses. Including the situation in Xinjiang, that is why the rest of the world should stay away from the Olympic Games. – Yaqiu Wang	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
By surrounding themselves with what they see as some kind of respectability, they try to legitimize clearly racist speech while not crossing certain legal lines. – Antumi Toasijé	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is an absurd move by the junta to try to legitimize their illegal power grab. – Charles Santiago	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It was clear that the military were going to look for some legal cases against the leaders of the National League for Democracy and especially Aung San Suu Kyi to actually legitimize what they’ve tried to do, and that is really a power grab. – Larry Jagan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
A public health crisis cannot be a pretense to pave over our privacy laws or legitimize tech companies' intrusive data collection about American's personal lives. – Senator Richard Blumenthal	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I urgently want to know how Apple and Google will assure that consumers' privacy interests are strongly balanced with the legitimate needs of public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic, a public health crisis cannot be a pretense to pave over our privacy laws or legitimize tech companies' intrusive data collection about American's personal lives. – Senator Richard Blumenthal	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My goal is to end this as soon as possible for the good of the country because I think its a danger to the presidency to legitimize this. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Thats not being done in this case, so I dont want to legitimize this because its a threat to the presidency. – Sean Hannity	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think it may be too early to tell, but the new formula may work in its favor, emily Ratajkowski and Rocky Barnes are getting great editorial models and photographers, and it is helping to legitimize the book in the fashion industry. – Craig Lawrence	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I think the market is really looking ahead to Doha, an agreement to freeze production does little to change physical balances. But constructive rhetoric could serve as a sentiment changer at a minimum, helping to legitimize the current rally and have the market hold the $40 a barrel level as the new psychological floor. – Michael Tran	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Worst of all, it [speculation of notable figures] provides fodder for the special educators, special education attorneys, ABA therapists etc. to legitimize their profits and to encourage the false hope and tears for toasted snow that so many parents of these children have. – Jonathan Mitchell	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It's not as if shutting them down stopped trafficking, but reopening them would legitimize it and give traffickers another reason to dupe and abuse women and girls, a majority of dance bars were doubling up as brothels, and we established a clear link between many rescued minor girls and these establishments. – Suparna Gupta	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What the Court of Appeals has actually affirmed is that our nation's laws, as currently constituted, legitimize the indiscriminate, unnecessary killing of animals. – Michael Harris	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These statements legitimize the thoughts of people who are radical, they feel these leaders are agreeing with them, so it's becoming more acceptable for them to say so, to do so. – Imam Muhammad Musri	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Russian draft ... does still talk about issues that do divide the Security Council so I don't see that having much prospect, it seeks to legitimize the authority of Assad. – Matthew Rycroft	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The deal would legitimize Iran's illegal nuclear program, it would leave Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This President is making a historic mistake, allies have differences, but allies like Israel, when you have a difference with them and it is public, it emboldens their enemies to launch more rockets out of southern Lebanon and Gaza, to launch more terrorist attacks, to go to international forums and de-legitimize Israel's right to exist. And this is what they're doing. – Florida Sen. Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It must be said that the HRC’s obsession with Israel actually risks undermining the credibility of the entire organization, the United States will measure these things, I hope, fairly and dispassionately but we will oppose any effort by any group or participant in the U.N. system to arbitrarily and regularly de-legitimize or isolate Israel. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You appeal to religion both to legitimize what you're doing and to mobilize people. – John Esposito	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our partners -- at least the ones that I work with, ask us to use that because they feel that if you use 'ISIL,' you will legitimize a self-declared caliphate, and they feel pretty strongly that we should not be doing that. – James Terry	Found on CNN 9 years ago

The majority of the population fiercely oppose going to the polls to legitimize the military’s political control, so we will see violence ratchet up if the regime seeks to impose a vote, and resistance groups seek to disrupt them.

– Richard Horsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We won’t allow President Putin to exploit events on the world stage to legitimize his illegal invasion of Ukraine.

– Nadine Dorries

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not just a sports event. The Chinese government is using the event to showcase the country to legitimize the standing of the country, to legitimize its policies, including the many human rights abuses, to be part of that is to be used as a tool by the Chinese Communist Party to legitimize its abuses. Including the situation in Xinjiang.

– Yaqiu Wang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Beijing is clearly using this opportunity to legitimize its human rights abuses in the country, don't be part of that. Stay away from that.

– Yaqiu Wang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To be part of that is to be used as a tool by the Chinese Communist Party to legitimize its abuses. Including the situation in Xinjiang, that is why the rest of the world should stay away from the Olympic Games.

– Yaqiu Wang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By surrounding themselves with what they see as some kind of respectability, they try to legitimize clearly racist speech while not crossing certain legal lines.

– Antumi Toasijé

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is an absurd move by the junta to try to legitimize their illegal power grab.

– Charles Santiago

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It was clear that the military were going to look for some legal cases against the leaders of the National League for Democracy and especially Aung San Suu Kyi to actually legitimize what they’ve tried to do, and that is really a power grab.

– Larry Jagan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A public health crisis cannot be a pretense to pave over our privacy laws or legitimize tech companies' intrusive data collection about American's personal lives.

– Senator Richard Blumenthal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I urgently want to know how Apple and Google will assure that consumers' privacy interests are strongly balanced with the legitimate needs of public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic, a public health crisis cannot be a pretense to pave over our privacy laws or legitimize tech companies' intrusive data collection about American's personal lives.

– Senator Richard Blumenthal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My goal is to end this as soon as possible for the good of the country because I think its a danger to the presidency to legitimize this.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Thats not being done in this case, so I dont want to legitimize this because its a threat to the presidency.

– Sean Hannity

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think it may be too early to tell, but the new formula may work in its favor, emily Ratajkowski and Rocky Barnes are getting great editorial models and photographers, and it is helping to legitimize the book in the fashion industry.

– Craig Lawrence

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think the market is really looking ahead to Doha, an agreement to freeze production does little to change physical balances. But constructive rhetoric could serve as a sentiment changer at a minimum, helping to legitimize the current rally and have the market hold the $40 a barrel level as the new psychological floor.

– Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Worst of all, it [speculation of notable figures] provides fodder for the special educators, special education attorneys, ABA therapists etc. to legitimize their profits and to encourage the false hope and tears for toasted snow that so many parents of these children have.

– Jonathan Mitchell

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's not as if shutting them down stopped trafficking, but reopening them would legitimize it and give traffickers another reason to dupe and abuse women and girls, a majority of dance bars were doubling up as brothels, and we established a clear link between many rescued minor girls and these establishments.

– Suparna Gupta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What the Court of Appeals has actually affirmed is that our nation's laws, as currently constituted, legitimize the indiscriminate, unnecessary killing of animals.

– Michael Harris

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These statements legitimize the thoughts of people who are radical, they feel these leaders are agreeing with them, so it's becoming more acceptable for them to say so, to do so.

– Imam Muhammad Musri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Russian draft ... does still talk about issues that do divide the Security Council so I don't see that having much prospect, it seeks to legitimize the authority of Assad.

– Matthew Rycroft

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The deal would legitimize Iran's illegal nuclear program, it would leave Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This President is making a historic mistake, allies have differences, but allies like Israel, when you have a difference with them and it is public, it emboldens their enemies to launch more rockets out of southern Lebanon and Gaza, to launch more terrorist attacks, to go to international forums and de-legitimize Israel's right to exist. And this is what they're doing.

– Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It must be said that the HRC’s obsession with Israel actually risks undermining the credibility of the entire organization, the United States will measure these things, I hope, fairly and dispassionately but we will oppose any effort by any group or participant in the U.N. system to arbitrarily and regularly de-legitimize or isolate Israel.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You appeal to religion both to legitimize what you're doing and to mobilize people.

– John Esposito

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Our partners -- at least the ones that I work with, ask us to use that because they feel that if you use 'ISIL,' you will legitimize a self-declared caliphate, and they feel pretty strongly that we should not be doing that.

– James Terry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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