| The interests protected from invasion by criminal laws are interests legitimated by a given conception of a just social order. |
| This legitimated the regime in the eyes of the faithful, a very political consequence of adherence to a seemingly apolitical ideology. |
| Acts of violence are legitimated through the evocation of historical events. |
| But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus? |
| He legitimated the cultivation of lyrical tropes, as the poet used them to enrich what is otherwise a lofty epic poem on the First Crusade. |
| Moreover, this practice was legitimated through an ideology based on Hellenistic ideals. |
