| Money can be laundered through casinos by gamblers who buy chips, then cash them and provide a receipt to legitimise the proceeds. |
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| Locke has since then been used to legitimise the creation of new property rights in tangibles and intangibles. |
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| They will bleed us dry in subsidies and legitimise a lot of the riff-raff coming here in the back of lorries. |
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| One of the most useful roles for research is to make people review their beliefs and legitimise unorthodox views. |
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| Some opponents have argued that voting will legitimise the on-going occupation. |
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| Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment. |
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| In the Republic, it was the ending of colonialism, not the advent of welfarism, that did most to legitimise the state. |
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| With the legalisation of the paramilitaries, they hope to legitimise impunity for these crimes against the Colombian people. |
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| Only such a premise can legitimise the wholesale domination, enslavement or extermination of other peoples. |
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| Many religious texts legitimise keeping wayward women under control through the use of physical violence. |
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| Acts of aggression, massacres and corruption legitimise foreign intervention. |
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| The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. |
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| Furthermore the question is open whether the legitimacy of the struggle would also legitimise arms transfers and the use of force. |
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| It's a false solution that's just going to be used by to coal industry to legitimise new coal power. |
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| The Charter, through the ECJ, has a strong potential to legitimise structures, policies and actions taken in the pursuit of European integration. |
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| The consent may be used as an additional ground to legitimise the processing operation. |
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| The problem that we now face is that we have a 6-million-euro theatre which needs a function and content in order to legitimise its existence. |
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| The more powerful interest groups manage the legal system and use it to legitimise and maintain the status quo. |
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| It helps to enhance the value of French and European university research and to legitimise socially responsible investment. |
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| Indeed, such ideologies may improperly appropriate scientific findings to further advance and legitimise social and political programs. |
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| The final aim would be to legitimise the final borders of the states of the region. |
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| The resolution does not legitimise any intervention or any armed attack upon a foreign state. |
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| When coupled with the rule of competition, it does not legitimise a community. |
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| A legal framework can legitimise and strengthen the role of youth organisations and youth work. |
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| Franco resisted both foreign and domestic pressures to democratise Spain, mainly because he resolved to legitimise his rule under law. |
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| The survival instinct and the insecurity of the future can seem to legitimise illicit enrichment. |
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| It was questioned whether subsequent marriage ought to legitimise children born prior to the marriage. |
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| In my view, this whole cybercrime issue is primarily intended to legitimise intervention in fundamental rights. |
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| As a result, the experience reinforces the suspicion of an operation with wide media coverage intended only to legitimise projects which were already defined, or at least decided elsewhere and by others. |
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| It implies that it would never be in any government's interest to legitimise the Lords, as they would be forfeiting their own power. |
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| In accordance with English tradition and in a bid to legitimise his rule, Henry issued a coronation charter laying out various commitments. |
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| They will then evaluate the study programme, cross-reference and legitimise responses, authenticate the results, and any other amount of dilly-dallying. |
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| Even knowing that they are certainly capable of, for example, showing the correct comportment, are we sure that they can also explain and legitimise it? |
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| In 1999 the compliant parliament voted for Niyazov to become president for life, and in 2002, he used an alleged assassination attempt to legitimise a far-reaching crackdown on political opponents. |
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| High-quality research dissemination also helps to legitimise society's investment in research and to awaken young people's interest in becoming researchers. |
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| One of the main challenges of democracies is to give visibility and to legitimise the processes of construction and reconstruction of the citizens' imaginaries, or narratives. |
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| Some want to legitimise this encroachment, by giving the committees formal vetoes, an automatic right to parliamentary debates and more resources. |
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| It is reasonable to wonder if it might help legitimise the sort of street harassment that projects like Everyday Sexism have so well documented, as that drunken crowd spills out onto the streets. |
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| Plan-D must seek to clarify, deepen and legitimise a new consensus on Europe and address criticisms and find solutions where expectations have not been met. |
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| It would legitimise the failure of the Moscow's campaign in the '980s and also prevent the military alliance from gaining a foothold between Russia, China, India, and Iran. |
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| This would also legitimise intervention by Western countries. |
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| The favour of common law has been extended so far that the good faith of one of the contracting parties has been deemed sufficient to legitimise the children born of their marriage. |
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| In its response, the CSCG admits the necessity of a debate on representativity in order to legitimise the increasingly important role of civil society in the European policy process. |
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| The dukes of Normandy commissioned and inspired epic literature to record and legitimise their rule. |
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| Nevertheless, it must also be stressed that this would too easily lead certain players, especially those in the local authorities, to legitimise the current situation. |
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| Her first Act of Parliament was to retroactively validate Henry's marriage to her mother and so legitimise her claim to the throne. |
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| Entities that are recognised by only a minority of the world's states usually reference the declarative doctrine to legitimise their claims. |
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| John tried without success until the end of his life to legitimise Jorge, Duke of Coimbra, his illegitimate son. |
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| Richard's death encouraged the furtherance of this later negative image by his Tudor successors due to the fact that it helped to legitimise Henry VII's seizure of the throne. |
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| His will had reinstated his daughters by his annulled marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn to the line of succession, but did not legitimise them. |
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