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Of particular relevance to a discussion of Gilchrist’s interest in legitimating a "cosmopolitan" English and instituting Roman characters as the standard for his orthoepigraphical system is his dedicatory statement within the wildly barbed and eccentric The Orienti-Occidental Tuitionary Pioneer, in which he makes claims for the supreme distinctiveness of his universal mode.

A Teleology of Letters; or, From a 2000

Cooper’s conclusion not only erases the threat of miscegenation, but it reveals that Oliver is the rightful heir of Templeton, reinstating the importance of primogeniture in legitimating the new nation’s claim to the American landscape. close window

Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006

(I'd have written "legitimating" except that Lieberman no longer has that power.)

Discourse.net: Just Deserts 2008

For another, she declared that "Hamas is not legitimate and Hamas control of the Gaza Strip is not legitimate" and called on the international community to avoid "legitimating" Hamas.

Howard Schweber: Israel and Hamas: Two to Tango 2009

The Predator State, "the cult of the free market serves as a kind of legitimating myth

newmatilda.com - Comments Andrew Goulding 2010

And please, no dinners legitimating repressive, fraudulent thugs.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010

To be sure, there still remains a problem of legitimating certain collective misfortunes, such as epidemics, or famines, or foreign conquests, and specific theodicies may be established for this purpose.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Insurgents often impose taxes on populations as a means of legitimating their rule in addition to the obvious purpose of raising funds.

Wonk Room » Tackling Afghanistan’s Opium Problem 2009

And please, no dinners legitimating repressive, fraudulent thugs.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010

And please, no dinners legitimating repressive, fraudulent thugs.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010