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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.

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Examples

  • Sending 12 million immigrants back to their country in order to be legalized is NOT a common sense solution, but rather adds huge obstacles for immigrants who want to be contributing members of our country.

    Wonk Room » Newt Gingrich Says Legalization Program Should Involve Sending 12 Million Immigrants Back 2009

  • Estimates indicate that the market in legalized marijuana might be as high as $10 billion annually.

    The year is 2020: What's happening with marijuana? Michael S. Rosenwald 2010

  • Of course, Cooch has an outstanding substantive record of fighting for pro-life license plates, reduction in legalized baby killings, and preservation of God-ordained marriage.

    MAJOR AG DEVELOPMENT 2008

  • You are no more capable of “free expression” about your belief in legalized discrimination of homosexuals, than you are of any of the other things you believe were commanded by your Lord.

    Waldo Jaquith - Our morality, shared and unshared. 2008

  • The USA Patriot Acts 1 and 2, The Warner Defense Authorization Act, and various Presidential Executive Orders and Signing Statements, which act together to allow secret and un-American actions to be "legalized" -, while at the same time break down the system of checks and balances the Constitution purposefully put in place.

    Our Situation: Focus on the Issues Immediately at Hand 2008

  • That’s not the point, the point is that the Poles and Portuguese do not engage in legalized butchery of their children.

    Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy 2009

  • The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.

    Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage Elizabeth Marquardt 2011

  • The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.

    Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage Elizabeth Marquardt 2011

  • The momentum began when President Obama stood up to call the legalized rape "abhorrent," an American president standing up for the women in a country with extremists, dangerous realities even in their own neighborhoods, and where Shiites make up only 10% of the population.

    Taylor Marsh: Rape Law in Afghanistan Goes Down 2009

  • Having represented plaintiffs who've lost good cases because likable defendants can smile while lying and defendants who've spent untold sums defending against frivolous lawsuits that can only be described as legalized extortion, the courthouse takes its toll.

    Tanya M. Acker: Don't Kill the Lawyers -- Yet 2009

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