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- verb Present participle of
legitimatize .
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Examples
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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"legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere.
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Opponents of SB 1070 (who condemn it as a bill legitimatizing racial profiling) are possibly disappointed by the absence -- in the arguments of the DOJ, and in turn in the opinion of Judge Bolton - to racial or ethnic discrimination in policing that the law might generate.
David Coleman: Obama's "General" Wins One: The Legal and Historical Import of U.S. vs. Arizona 2010
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Influential scholar Shaikh Hamza Yusuf devoted his sermon to passionately denounce domestic violence as having zero rationalization or legitimatizing basis in the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Wajahat Ali: An American Muslim Call to End Domestic Violence 2009
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I mean, if you would have said 20 years ago that six states in this country would pass legislation legitimatizing marriage between same-sex partners, you would have said to me, you're crazy, it's not going to happen.
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Banking regulation just might prevent a few particularly bad financial system abuses, but it boils down to further legitimatizing the money-Mafia.
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