Ban Ki-moon

Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.

South Korean Leader

Ron Williams

Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior.

American Businessman

Ken Shamrock

There's probably a hundred more submission holds in the WWE because of me training to bring in those submissions so people could look at them a legitimize them for pro wrestling. You look at it before I was there and after I was there: it's different matches.

American Athlete

Rush Limbaugh

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

American Entertainer

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

American Author

J. B. Pritzker

By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

Argentinian Businessman

Erin O'Toole

Every time we refuse to stand up for liberty and our core beliefs as a nation in the face of aggression from the Chinese regime, we legitimize their behaviour and encourage more bully tactics.

Canadian Politician

Mehdi Hasan

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

British Journalist

William C. Kirby

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Chinese Educator

Nina Easton

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

American Journalist

Indicates official endorsement making formally frowned upon acts permissible.

Legal Acceptance

Just because something is legitimized does not mean it is universally considered ethical.

Not Always Ethical

Use it to describe making behavior or beliefs widely accepted in society.

Social Norms

Used to convey providing solid reasons or evidence for a viewpoint.

Logical Grounding

Use sparingly to prevent diminishing the impact of the argument or claim.

Avoid Overuse

Often used in debates or discussions to strengthen a position.

Persuasive Language

Highlights the notion of conferring official standing or recognition to a regime.

Political Stability

Indicates how countries formally recognize new states or governments.

International Relations

 I have not made one percent of change in the professional practice of this art. That is a great tragedy -- which I'm carrying still with me and I hope that all of you will carry this with you -- that the profession still legitimizes publication of knowledge of people without attributing them by making them anonymous.

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 some global democratic institution. My own view, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, is that this is unlikely to be done by spawning more U.N. institutions. If we didn't have the U.N., we'd have to invent it. The world needs an international forum. It needs a means by which you can legitimize international action.

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 turned out to be a gift, because taking my sweet time taught me everything I needed to know about writing. And writing taught me everything I needed to know about creating worlds where people could be seen and heard, where their experiences could be legitimized,

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 and weirdly enough, I thought that this somehow legitimized the feelings I had for the guy who had just left me. I think on some level I wanted to feel a little bit crazy, because I thought that that was how love worked. This really should not be surprising,

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 It wasn't going to be forever, and then I could legitimize myself and focus on my modeling. I'd be in front of the camera, boom, in my mind, I'm like, oh, got to get a gift set today that had bath salts in them. And that's what I'm thinking as I'm getting

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 administration to withdraw from paris is really it's damaging it damages the multilateral system it it kind of legitimizes bad behavior in the multilateral sense so it's definitely not helpful but i think um i think the jury's still out on whether

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 But we came together at the end of the month and we celebrated our journey, and it was a real journey. And we had a lot of fun, and in 2004, I said to the guys, "That was so much fun. We need to legitimize this

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 which were sometimes excluded from dictionaries in the past. Racial slurs also meet the criteria for inclusion, but some argue that including them might legitimize them. Dictionaries don’t just add new words—

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 My soldiers use the gun as an instrument of peace. And this is exactly why failed states are so dangerous. Failed states have no legitimized, democratically controlled use of force.

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 I'd never heard of it until today." Now, the taxi associations, they legitimized the first layer of the trust stack. They legitimized the idea that they were trying to eliminate,

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