Rather than legitimizing himself legally, he is legitimizing himself spiritually.
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"By legitimizing Fransen and Britain First, Trump is legitimizing her racist and anti-Semitic allies [in Poland]," Rafal Pankowski told VICE News.
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The president will sit at a table legitimizing the regime.
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Have you betrayed them by legitimizing the regime in Pyongyang?
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But Trump wasn't done legitimizing discrimination on Friday -- he did more.
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It traveled to the legitimizing megaphone of prime-time cable news.
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Green argued that Trump is "legitimizing bigotry" by aggravating such controversies.
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This argument risks legitimizing an approach of bare minimum legal compliance.
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Observational studies of the torturer's craft victimize people by legitimizing it.
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In doing so, the media is irresponsibly legitimizing this criminal behavior.
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It's how the left finds its own path toward legitimizing hate.
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The inflaming and legitimizing of peoples' darkest, basest impulses to find entertainment.
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I like that they're legitimizing the expression of patriotism through space travel.
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In many cases, this also triggers notifications automatically, further legitimizing the malicious events.
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Both of these decisions share one thing: Trump is legitimizing discrimination against minorities.
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It's perhaps the clearest example yet of President Trump legitimizing fringe political allies.
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A man accused of legitimizing racist conspiracy theories and sexually harassing multiple women?
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If the opposition does take part, they risk legitimizing a potentially rigged election.
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Legitimizing this speech gives license to hate and only serves to breed it.
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Despite that, crypto bulls hailed it as a step toward legitimizing the cryptocurrency.
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I was not there to make any statement about legitimizing him or not.
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All of this is in the ultimate service of legitimizing the current leadership.
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An Oscar would just be a legitimizing sign that their efforts have been worthwhile.
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Who's responsible for detoxifying the Ryan agenda, for legitimizing his radical views on government?
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At the very least, it's content with legitimizing the agenda of anti-science advocates.
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Trump indeed has a long history of spreading conspiracy theories and legitimizing their practitioners.
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His election to the presidency is legitimizing machismo behavior, not just locker room rhetoric.
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Suffering at any level doesn't need legitimizing, and survival is not, in itself, selfish.
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Sharing them could be construed as legitimizing the other's claim, or even ceding sovereignty.
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Governments have always used sports as a way of legitimizing their rule and country.
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On the other, Paul Whiteman continued his work legitimizing jazz in the public's mind.
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Glamour & Diplomacy was about legitimizing an oft-overlooked and undervalued part of politics — clothes!
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He is, in every way, legitimizing the ideologies those marchers expressed as good and orderly.
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But the biggest problem is that Trump has a penchant for legitimizing dictators and strongmen.
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Wouldn't legitimizing sports/play only exacerbate the problem and encourage "gut" courses and "easy sports"?
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They are legitimizing and selling out their community by participating in an event like this.
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The effect of talking about one state at the moment is only legitimizing the settlements.
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"Large payment companies are wise to avoid legitimizing Facebook's private, global currency," Mr. Brown said.
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"I think we've done that," Corker said when asked if he worried about legitimizing North Korea.
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Najib's approach risks empowering and legitimizing conservative parties and organizations once only classified as extreme fringe groups.
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We can point out its losses without legitimizing one bad system in the name of criticizing another.
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Democrats have avoided it for fear of exacerbating Islamophobia and legitimizing terrorists' claims to represent a religion.
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"If I made one mistake, it was legitimizing the way the press covered this storyline," Palmieri said.
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Many see the launch as a step towards legitimizing bitcoin as an asset class for institutional investors.
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Corruption also enables violent extremism by buttressing the legitimizing narrative that radical groups utilize to recruit supporters.
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So, the first time he pointed his camera at me at an event, it was ridiculously legitimizing.
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Despite beginning as a joke, the dinner is often credited with legitimizing Rousseau in the art world.
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Najib's approach risks empowering and legitimizing conservative parties and organizations once only classified as extreme fringe groups.
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They say you cannot work with the President, because we work with him, you are legitimizing his presidency.
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Thank you for legitimizing his victory without normalizing his departure from the civil discourse we expect and deserve.
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With the margin of victory crucial to legitimizing a mandate, the second round will hinge on coalition-building.
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The loser will play a crucial role in legitimizing the victor -- or delegitimizing the winner from the outset.
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The positive recommendation from the FDA is a good step forward in legitimizing CBD and cannabis for medicine.
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Famous internet artists like Pertra Cortright and Olia Lialina are two females I respect for legitimizing the field.
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The World Health Organization recently classified burnout as a "syndrome," medically legitimizing the condition for the first time.
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The World Health Organization recently classified burnout as a syndrome, medically legitimizing the condition for the first time.
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Barr's use of the term triggered massive protest from Democrats, who viewed it as legitimizing a conspiracy theory.
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Stephens is well aware that inviting a controversial guest speaker can have the effect of legitimizing the speaker.
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And it seems to be working, by legitimizing some of the least savory aspects of Mr. Putin's rule.
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When we lose sight of what evil means, what it actually entails, we risk legitimizing and normalizing it.
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Candidate Trump relentlessly blasted NATO, hinted at legitimizing Russian aggression and floated removing punishing Western sanctions against Moscow.
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Democrats, and especially Democratic leaders like Schumer, should have no part in legitimizing this Republican march into madness.
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He accused Khalilzad of legitimizing the Taliban and decreasing the legitimacy of the Afghan government during the discussions.
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Touching on a theme raised by the Williams episode, Mouratoglou said legitimizing in-competition coaching would end hypocrisy.
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Proportionality and privacy What's most obvious here is the emphasis on oversight and proportionality for legitimizing data retention powers.
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Social media also bore a "heavy responsibility" for amplifying and legitimizing this hateful rhetoric towards the press, Deloire said.
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He's not offering the New Yorker's audience anything in exchange for the prestigious and legitimizing platform they're giving him.
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The summit shows why nuclear weapons are such a valuable commodity in international politics, legitimizing Kim's pursuit of them.
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But it also acknowledged some points of merit within Damore's memo without legitimizing his troubling arguments about biological inferiority.
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Memorably, the clerics issued a very unpopular fatwa in 1990 legitimizing the presence of American troops in the kingdom.
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For whatever trouble photography had in legitimizing itself as an art form, he is prepared to stand his ground.
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Democrats should not weaken that chance to save our democracy by legitimizing him through ill-fated attempts at cooperation.
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If that feels like a low bar for legitimizing a coup, then Mr. Maduro has only himself to blame.
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The report found Al Shabaab had learned to take advantage of natural disasters by helping victims and legitimizing its power.
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The summit and Trump's subsequent comments were perceived as legitimizing the brutal North Korean totalitarian government without holding them accountable.
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"We can't let Ivanka trick our communities into supporting and legitimizing her," co-organizer Carla Aronsohn told The Huffington Post.
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The mainstream opposition coalition boycotted Sunday's vote, calling it a sham aimed at legitimizing Maduro's rule despite his low popularity.
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Thrones does, however, have the distinction of legitimizing fan theories as a crucial and expected part of each episode's aftermath.
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If the Board opts to honor debt without a thorough audit, it may also very well be legitimizing questionable debt.
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Of course, Trump is not the only who can be blamed for legitimizing and emboldening Moscow's diplomatic and disinformation offensives.
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Once upon a time, American liberals knew that legitimizing dictators never ended well for those who dared speak their minds.
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However, the study was a first step in legitimizing intuition as a real thing that needs better methods for studying.
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Will Netflix win an Oscar for best picture, further legitimizing streaming services as a viable outlet for A-list filmmakers?
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That said, as great as Three Billboards is at legitimizing and celebrating women's rage, it's remarkably clumsy at dealing with race.
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In addition to legitimizing discrimination under the guise of religious freedom, Trump is further enhancing the privilege of Christianity in America.
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So the only real pressure point that can break the logjam without legitimizing this form of hostage-taking governance is McConnell.
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By talking about it and briefing on it, it would appear they were intentionally legitimizing the false claims of the dossier.
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Futures trading is only seen as further legitimizing bitcoin even as some prominent market participants say a dangerous bubble is forming.
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The move will mark another step toward legitimizing a digital asset that was once only the focus of some cryptocurrency developers.
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Her visit to meet with Assad was roundly criticized by members of both parties, who accused Gabbard of legitimizing a tyrant.
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"Our highest national leaders are legitimizing rhetoric once confined to the paranoid extremes of our society," he said in a statement.
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"When everything in your life is bleak, and you see someone writing lovingly about this bleakness," she added, "it's so legitimizing."
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Legitimizing these forms of discrimination is itself a grotesque violation of whatever it is that we actually mean by religious freedom.
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In 2015, he signed into law a religious freedom act that was widely criticized for legitimizing discrimination against same-sex couples.
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She said the administration's treatment of Muslims would fuel the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by legitimizing its propaganda.
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It skipped television entirely, legitimizing an Internet hub that has created an ecosystem of stars and revenue streams to rival Hollywood.
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That said, there's only so much you can talk about a conspiracy theory before you cross the line into legitimizing it.
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If not, there is simply no point in legitimizing a dictator whose family has caused the deaths of millions of North Koreans.
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ECHO may have changed this, Langston said, by legitimizing the treatment of hepatitis C in primary care — essentially, boosting providers' self-efficacy.
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And President Trump has held a legitimizing summit with Kim Jong Un. Now it's time to give a peace treaty a chance.
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He thinks that the scientific dialogue around negative emissions, especially at the UN, has gone a long way towards legitimizing the idea.
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Their image is necessary for legitimizing the elite status that they enjoy and all the advantages that come along with that status.
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"The biggest damage of the Iran deal was legitimizing and sitting at the negotiating table with America," Moussavi was quoted as saying.
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"It's good in some ways because it's legitimizing the space, but there's also a lot more choices and a lot more competition."
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Some focused their ire on the actress Helen Hunt who addressed the conference on Sunday, accusing her of legitimizing Mr. Sisi's rule.
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Another insidious side-effect manifests in the self-legitimizing practice of new, often private cultural institutions in regions experiencing recent cultural booms.
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After Ms. Napolitano rescinded the 2009 report on right-wing extremism, Obama administration officials feared legitimizing white supremacists' views with more attention.
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She says that in addition to the funding, O2 plays a crucial role in legitimizing these kinds of breaks for nonprofit leaders.
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Legitimizing a lot of homophobia and rape culture, and making it seem like it's crazily existing within some kind of moral framework.
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To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
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Ironically, despite his critical intensions, Foxwell points out that the piece still manages to impress, upholding and legitimizing Nihonga's aesthetic of luxurious consumption.
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"Stop legitimizing 'sides' of an issue that are based in fear & bigotry rather than reality," one person said in response to the ad.
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By cynically piggybacking on this story to push his own pet issue, Paul is not only feeding into, but legitimizing, Trump's conspiracy-mongering.
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"Voting for Fujimori would be legitimizing the dictatorship," said Eduardo Leon, a 34-year-old restaurant owner who plans to vote for Kuczynski.
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In paying a friendly visit to the giant gulag that is the North Korea, you've taken another step toward legitimizing the Kim regime.
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Such a move would be a dangerous and irresponsible provocation that contravenes longstanding U.S. policy by legitimizing Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
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It sheds some light on opaque dealings between politicians and energy company executives, and cultural sponsorship's role in facilitating and legitimizing those activities.
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And in China it's interesting, because you have [President] Xi Jinping, whose anti-corruption drive has been one of his main legitimizing tools.
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One way to think of a cast ballot is as an instrument of democratic voice, a way of legitimizing those who hold power.
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By calling COVID-19 "the Chinese virus," the president contributes to the problem by legitimizing those who frame the pandemic in xenophobic terms.
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Pruitt's red herring defense is a weak attempt at legitimizing the Trump administration's decision to pull the US out the Paris climate agreement.
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With the pope legitimizing bishops appointed by the Chinese government, the party thinking goes, secret underground churches may have no reason to exist.
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On his coinage, he shortened the legitimizing phrase to just SPQR in order to preserve the myth that the Republic still lived on.
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"To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics," Sen.
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Washington, for its part, might undo sanctions on Russia, effectively legitimizing the first territorial invasion of a state by another in post-War history.
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When the UK authorities worked with these Saudi-linked ultraconservatives, they ran the risk of legitimizing them as mainstream voices within the Muslim community.
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He sought a legitimizing photo opp with the leaders of some of the world's most valuable and highly respected companies, and he got it.
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It is a strategy that is completely indifferent to the dangers it is inflaming, legitimizing suspicions and hatred which can't subsequently be switched off.
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"To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics," Graham continued.
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As Clinton prepared to deliver a speech eviscerating Trump for legitimizing white supremacists and cozying up to far-right extremists, Trump responded in kind.
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Many cryptocurrency proponents see the launch of bitcoin futures as a step toward legitimizing the digital currency in the eyes of big, institutional investors.
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"To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics," Graham said.
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On our side, it means legitimizing Parliament members who have supported terrorism, or who make these tortured distinctions between killing Israeli soldiers and civilians.
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Exaggerating American hostility and creating a sense of empowerment through nuclear weapons has become a hallmark of state propaganda legitimizing Mr. Kim's dynastic rule.
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"What we have in this era that's unique is the legitimizing of those perspectives with laws, with people in [positions] of authority," she says.
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But whether those were 20 steps toward long-lasting peace initiatives, or 20 steps toward empowering and legitimizing the hermit kingdom, remains to be seen.
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With eight years of work behind them, the Streamy Awards are legitimizing the world of YouTube as it inches closer and closer to mainstream entertainment.
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But the eastern parliament has held back from endorsing the new government, accusing it of legitimizing militias in western Libya whilst undermining the eastern military.
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Abe's proposal would add a clause legitimizing the SDF to existing clauses renouncing Japan's right to wage war and banning the maintenance of armed forces.
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She added that she worried the tape of Mr. Trump would "encourage that type of behavior to come out from the background," essentially legitimizing it.
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Such accusations are ways of legitimizing the individual motives of those who make them, whether these are concerned with quarrels over money, property or marriage.
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Speaking to reporters in Washington last week, advocates said many people don't consider how decriminalizing sex work can end up legitimizing pimps and brothel operators.
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" Deputy Iranian ambassador Eshagh Al Habib said the law means the legalization of "racism and apartheid, and ultimately, it means legitimizing exclusion, segregation and systemic inequality.
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Critics have questioned whether Trump has made any substantive gains from his friendships and worry that his eagerness to talk to strongmen results in legitimizing them.
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In similar fashion, Mr. Hancock was his own legitimizing force behind "Rockit," a bolt of reassurance that this music could, in fact, be seen as musical.
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It is a problem that a group of scholars is publishing these unprovenanced artifacts, legitimizing the seizure and removal of cultural heritage by an occupying power.
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Today, women's wrestling is the industry's fastest growing division, with stars like Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Sasha Banks further legitimizing women's place in the sport.
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Inviting Mr. Kim to another summit in New York, therefore, would be a mistake — only further legitimizing his regime and its horrific treatment of human beings.
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Yemen's information minister, Moammar al-Eryani, declined to give details on the talks, but said "the STC's demands mean legitimizing taking up arms against the State".
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Without the legitimizing acknowledgment of their work as "art," outsider artists are often considered by their immediate communities to be eccentrics under the best of circumstances.
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"There is something really legitimizing about having a book deal, and you hear all the time about how hard it is to get," Ms. McDuffie said.
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry, which sent observers to Cambodia even as Western monitors stayed away for fear of legitimizing the polls, deemed the elections a success.
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Any knowledge garnered from indigenous communities was simply stolen and incorporated into their publications, which in turn played a role in legitimizing colonial authority and directives.
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In the 1920s, the Fascisti in Italy would also use the fasces both for their name and as a means of legitimizing their new political movement.
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Unicode's blessing wasn't just a way to maintain standards for the evolving lexicon of emoji—it was the beginning of legitimizing emoji as a form of communication.
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Cook rarely gets credit for revitalizing (or at least legitimizing) the smartwatch category with the Apple Watch or, this fall, entering the smart speaker market with HomePod.
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The electoral commission issued a last-minute call for people to vote, hoping to boost the turnout figure that Sisi regards as vital to legitimizing his victory.
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Legitimizing gray area material is proving to be appealing for labels and streaming platforms, as they both benefit from the added exposure and revenue it can provide.
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Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham were both critical of Trump's retweets, with Graham saying that he was "legitimizing religious bigotry" that would hurt relations with Muslim allies.
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"To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics," Graham said during Thursday's hearing.
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Many among the opposition, however, believe Falcon is legitimizing a rigged process, which governments around the world including the United States and Latin American neighbors have condemned.
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A new generation of Ivy League-educated experts, as Said saw it, were legitimizing America's deepening confrontation with the Arab world, especially over the question of Palestine.
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The contemporary press treated George and Willie atrociously, legitimizing their captivity by regurgitating all the "ballyhoo" (wild, improvised performer biographies) that the high carnies could cook up.
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Both countries claim the oil and gas reserves, and a deal on sharing could be seen as legitimizing the other side's claim, or giving away sovereign territory.
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Where it stands: The Taliban would agree to meet government officials only in a "personal capacity" — a time-honored way to avoid legitimizing adversaries in early talks.
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Five Star's political leader, Luigi Di Maio, has attacked Mr. Salvini for protecting a government official accused of corruption and accused him of inciting and legitimizing extremists.
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North Korean leaders have been eager for decades to meet with an American president; it's just that no previous president agreed for fear of legitimizing the regime.
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Moderates who think of themselves as problem solvers should welcome the left's initiatives as part of a process of legitimizing the very act of public problem solving.
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"Plundering antiquities in the Middle East and South America and legitimizing them with false provenances, that's the major problem in the art world today," Mr. Greenhalgh said.
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Throughout the evening, speakers pointed to books as a weapon against bigotry and hate, and to the National Book Awards as a means of legitimizing their force.
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Simon & Schuster is the home of Threshold Editions, and it is set to make a great deal of money by legitimizing and mainstreaming Milo Yiannopoulos and his hatred.
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The prime minister and the ruling Likud Party are legitimizing a racist, xenophobic and homophobic fringe party in hopes of bolstering a right-wing bloc after the elections.
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If the Trump administration is leery of giving Kim another legitimizing media moment, President Trump could declare the war over in his own way: send out a tweet.
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Democrats, meanwhile, went on the attack Tuesday, condemning the president for legitimizing what they say is a brutal regime and for appearing too eager to strike a deal.
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"His victory is already encouraging and legitimizing countless acts of violence throughout the country," said Recife-based small business owner Paula, who requested her surname not be used.
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Morell slammed the decision as a step towards legitimizing Manning's "criminal path" as a leaker of classified information, according to a letter first reported by CBS's Mosheh Oinounou.
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Just as many Democrats believe that appearing anywhere on Fox legitimizes the network's most offensive bloviators, many believe that courting Trump voters will require legitimizing the president's views.
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Finally, she understood how central abstractions were in legitimizing unwarranted authority, in pitting people against one another, and in justifying indefensible wars, discrimination and other forms of brutality.
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If they come out in support of me, or are seen as somehow legitimizing my candidacy, it could pose a problem down the line if I'm not elected.
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" — Sheryl Gay Stolberg Senator Lindsey Graham: "To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
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But his revisionist views and association with individuals belittling the grievances of Korean and Chinese people have led right-wing organizations to see him as a legitimizing force.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a prominent public intellectual, said the Modi government was legitimizing force against people seen as disruptive to its nationalist project, including minorities, secularists and protesters.
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He also warned that Russia was legitimizing the Taliban, inviting representatives to Moscow and creating the "false narrative" that the group was fighting Islamic State terrorists in Afghanistan.
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A lot of folks critiqued those as legitimizing the NK government and putting it on an equal level with the US. I'm curious what you thought of those.
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Unethical or illegal businesses will tend to be voted out of cooperative networks with face-to-face exchanges, however, which can go a long way toward legitimizing the currency.
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"The Kim family rule rests on one legitimizing goal – and that is to rule over all of the Korean peninsula, the destruction of the South Korean state," Kim said.
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What is required to bridge those divides is a genuine recognition that neither party has the answers and that in our system legitimizing change over time requires bipartisan support.
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Mr. Kim would stage a gala celebration in a big public square and Mr. Trump would become a prop for legitimizing the North Korean leader and his nuclear program.
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Others, like Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean-Swedish activist, see the prize as merely legitimizing Mr. Isaias and his brutal rule without forcing him to change his policies at home.
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Others, like Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean-Swedish activist, see the prize as merely legitimizing Mr. Isaias and his brutal rule without forcing him to change his policies at home.
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"All Israeli settlements are illegal,'' he said, "and we are not going to accept any formula that aims at legitimizing the presence of Israeli colonies on occupied Palestinian land.
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High turnout will be key to legitimizing a "yes" vote, which the Catalan government says would lead to a declaration of independence from the regional parliament within 48 hours.
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A summit would just allow Kim to take photos alongside the world's most powerful person, further legitimizing him on the world stage and with his people back home, experts say.
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Conservative CDU party chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) shared the blame for Luebcke's murder by legitimizing a language of hate that fuels violence.
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It is unclear whether the push for federal oversight of fintech will survive this debate or simply die out, but striking down attempts at federal regulation ends up legitimizing illegitimacy.
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The modern thinker probably most responsible for legitimizing the use of force against the "wrong" ideas is Herbert Marcuse, widely considered the philosopher of the New Left during the 1960s.
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Conversation with people who are willfully promoting fake news and pseudo science is legitimizing a platform of things that aren't true and I don't think that is good at all.
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However, Trump's efforts have only accomplished two goals so far: first, convincing Trump supporters that he is winning, and second, buying more time for Kim while partially legitimizing his regime.
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The answer to this question lies in legitimizing the shared economy by building relationships with key stakeholders, bringing it under regulation (rather than litigation) and establishing its positive social impacts.
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But all evidence suggests many have to consult their conscience daily, weighing those things they can control and shape against their continued presence legitimizing and enabling those things they cannot.
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President Trump even encouraged these bad actors to "get the terrorists," legitimizing the lie that these rogue regimes were primarily fighting ISIS, rather than wiping out opposition to Assad's rule.
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"Then on top of it all, my dad's so called widow validated it, because she needs to keep legitimizing herself and tarnish our dad even after he's dead," Rain continued.
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The Trump administration took a gamble in meeting with Kim, knowing that the second President Trump shook Chairman Kim's hand, many would see such an action as a legitimizing moment.
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The U.S. should not, however, be tricked into legitimizing North Korea's nuclear ambitions by entering into the formal peace talks phase without a firm commitment to denuclearization from North Korea.
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Oregon's decision is huge in legitimizing the identities of trans and non-binary people, particularly in light of a transphobic political climate that has discriminated against trans students and adults.
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Any potential U.S. investment in North Korea would have a legitimizing effect and might include technology and entrepreneurship guidance from Silicon Valley, according to Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange.
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But there is also a line of thinking on the left that engaging with them legitimizing them in some way or that that tactic isn't going to change any minds.
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His end goal is to create apparent instability in American elections and undermine our institutions, thus legitimizing his own badly conceived power at home in Russia and with other countries.
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" And he concluded with a message to his Republican colleagues, saying, "if you vote 'no', you're legitimizing the most despicable thing that I have seen in my time in politics.
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But I think that vampires in the more traditional mainstream meaning–which is the sexy, male, powerful blah, blah, blah, blah figure–are many times legitimizing rape culture, I think.
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This is Purkayastha's clear critique of the nation state: Especially in the world's largest democracy, it is becoming increasingly important to question the legitimizing mechanisms used by the democratic method.
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Rather than stealing votes from the far right, they argue, the center left was legitimizing their positions, making it morally acceptable for voters to act on their anti-immigrant sentiments.
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Still, he called Solomon a "legitimizing factor" and said there is plenty of time for them to be taken into the fold by their mainstream peers — if their reporting bears out.
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I get that argument, but when you put BuzzFeed in a CNN press release, and when Jeff pops off about Vice at a press lunch … You're saying it's legitimizing them. Yeah.
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In practice, campaigns should engage in and promote traditional center-left and center-right debates on social protections and government's role in business without legitimizing populist rants about culture and outsiders.
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A young Italian with no foreign experience replaced him and began legitimizing official Chinese bishops too quickly, too easily, creating the impression that now the Vatican would automatically second Beijing's selection.
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Jon Voight thinks Hollywood is trying to destroy the country by de-legitimizing President Trump, and he's calling out Miley Cyrus and Shia LaBeouf by name, saying their conduct is treasonous.
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"So strong is the power of the legitimizing narrative, that even those who are victims of these violent fictions are rarely deterred from crafting justifying fictions of their own," Coates writes.
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The CMAs took a swing this year by doing something to work towards acknowledging women in this genre and legitimizing their voices — and addressing the ageism women face in the industry.
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So the recounts that are advancing in Wisconsin and will mostly likely happen in Pennsylvania and Michigan could be seen as legitimizing conspiracy theories that call into question, well, America's democracy.
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And that's a minor positive, if you ignore the NFL calculating that they can give a little ground if it means legitimizing their game day appearance standards the rest of the season.
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"By legitimizing the conduct that produces this double consciousness, this case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time," she added.
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Sources in diplomatic missions said most foreign envoys had yet to congratulate Rajapaksa as it could be interpreted as legitimizing the new government while there were still complaints his appointment was unconstitutional.
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In remarks that drew a furious response from the AfD, the largest opposition party in Germany's parliament, Annagret Kramp-Karrenbauer blamed it for legitimizing a language of hate that had spurred violence.
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Despite the recent inroads made in legitimizing and de-stigmatizing mental illness and those who suffer from it, the mysterious facilities in which these ailments are treated often still carry negative connotations.
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"You're legitimizing their surveillance, not combating it," Scott Long, an LGBT rights activist who has worked in the Middle East, told the AP, lambasting WikiLeaks's release of the names of rape survivors.
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Republicans have ignored the will of those voters, launching an unprecedented assault on democratic institutions and de-legitimizing the electoral process, all in the name of protecting McCrory's legacy and their power.
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"I think we have made great steps in legitimizing talking about guts and bowels, but I'm not sure yet that that has translated into hygiene change in our private bathrooms," George says.
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"Skateboarders don't need approval from anyone, or for anyone to think that skateboarding is cool," says Inskip, referring to the potential drawback to legitimizing skateboarding on a commercial level through the Olympics.
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By the end of the Gilded Age, philanthropy had assumed an explicitly legitimizing purpose, according to Ben Soskis, a historian and research associate at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
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Rhaegar divorced Elia and then married Lyanna instead under the Faith of the Seven, legitimizing Jon and making him the next heir in line after the Mad King Aerys and Rhaegar's deaths.
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If passed, an immunity law would represent a double blow to Israeli democracy: both legitimizing the prime minister's efforts to neuter the media and blocking an independent check on wrongdoing by the premier.
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While building and legitimizing a business from the ground up is no easy feat, there are definitely a few advantages to being a young, first-time entrepreneur (unrivaled confidence and fearlessness, for instance).
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"The biggest damage of the Iran deal was legitimizing and sitting at the negotiating table with America," Iran's army chief Seyed Abdul Rahim Moussavi said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
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Kirsti Rantanen's work, which is currently on display at Design Museum in Helsinki, is notable for her role in legitimizing craft processes as visual art and producing large-scale sculptures through those processes.
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Our future chief executive officers are legitimizing and enabling the court as a political actor, rather than an institution dedicated to providing "Equal Justice Under Law" (as the Supreme Court building itself proclaims).
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"Aung San Suu Kyi is legitimizing genocide in Myanmar and has entrenched the persecution of the Rohingya minority," state crime specialists at Queen Mary University of London said in a statement on Wednesday.
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It's an inaccurate story, but he has clung to it since the day he announced his candidacy back in the summer of 2015, thereby legitimizing it to a large segment of the electorate.
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The association immediately unanimously voted to officially acknowledge John Pierre and his sister Charlotte Louisa as the children of Aaron Burr -- thus legitimizing an entire line of his descendents as his direct descendents.
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Both sides eagerly reduce people to abstract color categories, all the while feeding off of and legitimizing each other, while those of us searching for gray areas and common ground get devoured twice.
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For him, the act of creating a zine is more about defining his reality on his terms and legitimizing it than it is about the novelty of making indie media and distributing it.
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When 19th-century medicine men were organizing and legitimizing their brand-new profession, they claimed the mantle of "science" even though there was no such thing as evidence-based medicine at the time.
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The longer the Senate leadership allows these claims against Vought and Barrett to linger, the more they grow complicit in legitimizing the religious bigotry to which both were — and continue to be — subject.
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Many called for a boycott, believing it was outrageous to even contemplate participating, because it could be seen as legitimizing both the Constituent Assembly and the electoral commission that has repeatedly rigged votes.
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She warned Republicans that legitimizing an unsubstantiated theory that Kyiv undertook a concerted campaign to interfere in the election — a claim the president pushed repeatedly for Ukraine to investigate — played into Russia's hands.
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It comes just two weeks after Duda approved a bill legitimizing the government's appointment of its own judges to Poland's highest court, a move that provoked mass demonstrations across the Central European country.
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Vox's Zack Beauchamp called it a ploy to "turn ... Islamophobia into the official guiding light of American immigration policy," legitimizing and codifying the xenophobia and racism Trump had harnessed to win the presidency.
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In a statement, Lawrence and Stockton said that their initial decision to support Ward by "legitimizing her campaign" in 2016 and continuing to run outreach efforts this year had been a massive error.
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Ted Cruz, whose father fled Cuba for Canada as a teenager, called the trip a "real mistake," and Jeb Bush told Fox News that it's a "tragedy" that Obama is "legitimizing" the Castro family.
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Sitting down as an equal with the U.S. president would go a long way toward legitimizing his regime on the world stage and weakening the rationale for continued trade sanctions, particularly by neighboring China.
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In recent years, the First Amendment has faced unprecedented threats from all sides, with a "mob mentality" shutting down speech and "the grown-ups in the room"— professors and administrators— legitimizing that radical activism.
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In this sense, the Basij – a subsidiary of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime's praetorians – differs from other security agencies through its extensive reliance on volunteers, thereby legitimizing it as a grassroots movement.
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The presence of such a universally respected Democratic state elections chief on the commission led to complaints that Gardner was legitimizing a process that Democrats believed was established merely to assuage the President's ego.
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Such a killing allows family members to "prove" that their loyalty to (Kadyrov's vision of) Chechen culture, transcending their loyalty to their teip, or clan, which is key to legitimizing Kadyrov's rule throughout Chechnya.
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After Trump was elected president — legitimizing anti-immigrant views in the eyes of many — the willingness to contribute to the anti-immigration group with no guarantee of anonymity rose from 34 to 48 percent.
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"If you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics," Mr. Graham said, his voice rising in a way that is rarely seen in Senate hearings.
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The challenge facing mainstream parties, said Professor Garton Ash, who wrote about the subject in The New York Review of Books, was to win back voters from the AfD without legitimizing its nativist rhetoric.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a clarification deploring expressions of anti-Semitism in general, but legitimizing and supporting the campaign against Mr. Soros, who has financed left-wing causes critical of the Israeli government.
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But analysts say that while the Alternative for Germany has not been linked directly to political violence, the party's noisy presence has contributed to a normalization of violent language that risks legitimizing violence itself.
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Rather, I am bewildered as to how to proceed in a situation in which the legitimizing mechanics of democratic majority rule are preserved even as the reality of an increasingly irreversible minority control prevails.
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So, Janssen patented the left part of the molecule, esketamine, and sent it through the FDA approval system as a potential cash cow called Spravato, legitimizing the use of ketamine for depression in the process.
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By not opposing China's censorship policies directly and continuing to embrace the country, US tech companies are arguably legitimizing this restricted version of the internet that other countries are looking up to, Freedom House argues.
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However, the details of Ring partnership and promotional agreements show that the company is dedicated to legitimizing its products among local law enforcement and government officials in order to maximize the proliferation of its products.
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CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said last week that the AfD, the largest opposition party in the German parliament, was legitimizing a language of hate that was encouraging far-right sympathizers to resort to violence.
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While ARM has been around since 1991, RISC-V just got started in 2010 but it's gaining a lot of ground and ARM's pitiful website could easily be seen as a legitimizing moment for the tech.
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We also know that this new car is finally supposed to last a full race on a single charge, which is a huge deal when it comes to legitimizing electric technology in a serious racing setting.
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The draft Bill in its current form is "effectively legitimizing hacking," Paul Bernal, a lecturer in law at the University of East Anglia (UEA) with a focus on surveillance legislation, told Motherboard in a phone interview.
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By appealing not just to his evangelical base but to a theological, even apocalyptic reading of history, and Trump's role in it, Trump is not merely legitimizing alternative facts but, more dangerously, writing alternative sacred history.
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The past few years have seen unprecedented headway toward legitimizing psychedelics in medicine and science, and never before have drugs like MDMA and LSD seen as much interest by researchers and legislators as they enjoy today.
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Through the Green Scholars Initiative, a number of academics — including prominent scholars like Emanuel Tov of Hebrew University and Dirk Obbink of Oxford — are spending years publishing the Greens' antiquities, authenticating them, and legitimizing their collection.
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For journalists, this presents a genuine dilemma: In an era in which supporters of racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic and misogynistic ideas are increasingly visible and violent, how do you inform the public without legitimizing the fringes?
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That would almost certainly knock the former Florida governor out of the race, while further legitimizing Kasich's under-the-radar campaign, and forcing mainstream conservatives to potentially consider him as the alternative to Trump or Cruz.
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"Arming belligerents or legitimizing belligerents who perpetuate attacks like we saw two days ago in Mazar-i-Sharif is not the best way forward to a peaceful reconciliation," said Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
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The images talk the talk of male beauty standards set forth as early as Greek sculpture, ever limiting a potential scope of what consumable, marketable beauty can be, and further legitimizing the off-limits boys' club.
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" (He physically pointed at Democrats during this line.) He added, in a message to his Republican colleagues: "If you vote 'no' you are legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
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But of all the efforts to defend Mr. Trump, legitimizing his efforts to have Ukraine investigate the 2016 election may be the most egregious, since it helps Moscow deflect blame for its assault on American democracy.
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From calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" at an event honoring Native Americans to tacitly endorsing an accused child molester for Senate to legitimizing the UK's worst hate group, here's a rundown of the president's last seven days.
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It risked hastening America's unmistakable surrender to Tehran, as well as legitimizing Iran as just another nation state when, they believe, it can only be seen as an evil entity literally on par with Nazi Germany.
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Foreign policy experts fear that a visit to Pyongyang risks legitimizing the authoritarian government of Mr. Kim, whose country has not had diplomatic relations with the United States since establishing itself as a separate state in 1948.
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"Maybe the outcry against the Tribeca Film Festival will make other public figures think twice before legitimizing dangerous misinformation about vaccines," said Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan, who has studied the impact of debunking on public opinion.
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Our duty of having a serious legitimate concern for the humanitarian situation in Yemen should not be blinded by an unintended consequence of legitimizing the Islamists, who are the root of Yemen's problems in the first place.
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" Then addressing the wavering Republican senators whose votes will determine this confirmation, Mr. Graham said, "To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
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The process of legitimizing Islamic thought was in part begun during the rule of Kenan Evren, the army general who took power in a coup in 1980 and who viewed Islam as a potential buffer against communism.
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They include the ideological party line, which serves as the vehicle for thought, speech and behavior control and enforced conformity, and is the legitimizing instrument that supplies the reasons why the regime deserves to be in power.
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Currently, local public safety policy is being shaped by elected leaders, political candidates and a competitive media with increasingly less editorial control, legitimizing narratives through the use of out-of-context statistics, incomplete statements and outright lies.
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When Qatar's news agency and social media accounts published quotes from the emir praising Hamas and legitimizing Iran as an "Islamic power" despite the fact that it represents a rival faction of Islam (Shia Islam), they were furious.
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Friday's Google Doodle celebrates just that by honoring the 119th birthday of Manuel dos Reis Machado, known as Mestre Bimba -- the master credited for legitimizing the martial art form and founding the world's first school to promote it.
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Many politicians and media personalities have fanned the flames of hatred by mainstreaming antisemitism, promulgating conspiracy theorizing tropes about Jewish people and legitimizing hate groups who target racial and religious minorities and promote acts of violence against them.
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" Sides, Vavreck, and Tesler argue that in a chaotic, crowded primary, the media coverage Trump received was crucial to legitimizing his campaign: "Republican voters had received no clear signal about who the front-runner was or should be.
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South Australia came closer to legitimizing prostitution in the eyes of the law today, as a bill to fully decriminalize the trade passed the upper house of the state's Legislative Council in the early hours of the morning.
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The launch of bitcoin futures on two of the world's largest futures exchanges marks a step toward legitimizing the digital currency as an asset class for institutional investors, and could pave the way toward a bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
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This is more so in a world where drug pricing debates are impacting health care policies and the U.S. and other countries are considering legitimizing the importation of drugs from Canada with concerns about associated impact on drug quality.
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But the legitimizing of tools to block arbitrary web addresses or snoop on and redirect ordinary traffic, however effective or ostensibly well-administrated they are, simply is not something anyone who supports a free and open web can allow.
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The controversial law, branded a Snoopers' Charter by critics, includes proposals that seek to enhance the surveillance powers open to the UK government, police and intelligence agencies while legitimizing some of the tactics exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013.
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Many insisted that participating in the election was legitimizing Maduro's government following what they said was a power grab with the creation of an all-powerful legislature called the Constitutional Assembly in a July ballot boycotted by the opposition.
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But also being angry, that's why I'm so glad there's these books being written by Rebecca Traister and others who are talking about legitimizing women's anger because right now, it is still seen as an aberration or as threatening.
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As the zenith of this government are two African Americans, President Barak Obama and Ambassador Susan Rice, Obama's national security advisor, who are seen as instrumental in enabling and legitimizing the oppression of the Oromo and other oppressed people in Ethiopia.
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By standardizing the way Americans can acquire these skills and encouraging tech companies to offer that training, Obama's plan is legitimizing these nontraditional paths to sought-after jobs, and making them more accessible to the people who need them most.
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The UFC is leading the line in terms of legitimizing mixed martial arts, but what happened in the promotion's co-main event in Brisbane last weekend will give MMA's contrarians plenty of ammunition for their dressing down of the sport.
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The irony is that most WorldPride spectators were more interested in celebrating these men in tacky makeup and fake headdresses than legitimizing the presence of queer and two-spirit Indigenous people who have fought for decades to open space for others.
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READ: Ex-lawmakers face charges in Michigan after affair scandal Zapata was arrested on Friday for allegedly legitimizing illicit profits, illicit enrichment of individuals with involvement with the State, and misuse of influence, according to Bolivian State run news agency ABI.
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"Elections are seen as important to legitimizing regimes," he said, but instead of imposing one-party rule, as in the past, today's authoritarians "use a variety of devices to control and/or manipulate the media, intimidate opponents" and so on.
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Over the past 15 or 20 years, though, hedge funds and venture capitalists have woken up to the idea that lawsuits can be lucrative, and have poured money into the cases themselves as well as a push for legitimizing their involvement.
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Earlier this week, Max Fisher termed this the "hegemonist" view: that US hegemony promotes global security and protects the US-led liberal order, and that negotiations — even successful ones — threaten that hegemony by legitimizing other countries' challenges to American dominance.
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Starting in the show's third season and culminating in the fifth episode of the fourth, however, that romance was eclipsed by new potential couple Quentin and Eliot, legitimizing years of fan speculation and canonizing Quentin as a literal bisexual king.
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Despite being given a massive concession by the Trump administration—a legitimizing summit in Singapore that risked weakening the maximum pressure campaign—Kim still seems to feel nuclear weapons are his only hope, the ultimate insurance policy that guarantees his regimes survival.
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Given all that, what does the growing, informal list of post-election accounts tell us about the country's climate, and about the consequences of legitimizing bigotry for the people who have been the targets of the president-elect's racist, sexist, and xenophobic rhetoric?
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Legitimizing a tyrant Critics of Trump's approach argue that he has already ceded huge propaganda concessions to Kim by agreeing to repeated meetings without securing even an inventory of North Korean weapons that will be the first step to a genuine diplomatic process.
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Some critics are pointing out that this looks less like a solution to YouTube's role perpetuating and legitimizing batshit crazy ideas, and more like a way for it to absolve itself of a responsibility of taking a more critical look at the problem.
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Meanwhile, though, the women who are responsible for legitimizing his crumbling campaign, Abedin and Morgan, have to handle themselves so carefully, to think about "optics" and consider the implications of Weiner's behavior in a way he seems unable, or unwilling, to do.
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He instigated both of them: in one case, by turning an impoverished totalitarian state thousands of miles away into his personal bête noire; in the other, by legitimizing the grievances of a pathetic group that believes people of other races are inherently inferior.
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Forming an agreement for a joint project would be extremely complex and sensitive as both countries claim jurisdiction of the site of the oil and gas reserves, so sharing them could be deemed legitimizing the other side's claim, or even ceding sovereign territory.
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Most important, Putin is running for reelection, and while he has no chance of losing, he needs to gloss over his regime's economic failures by legitimizing his rule in the militaristic themes he knows best as a product of the Soviet system.
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Judge Ahmed Mohamed Ali, who heard all 12 cases, said that the French who joined the Islamic State played a special role by legitimizing the organization in the eyes of the world, and that what it did in Syria reverberated in Iraq.
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But in a certain sense, legitimizing the operation put TCC at odds with the local DIY community: TCC has a business license and a legal entity that protects its members, and they generally want their shows to be advertised and well attended.
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As spectacular as many of the contests are, they carry a risk of legitimizing the lies inherent in the subjects discussed—that Jews control the world, that black people are intellectually inferior to white people, that minorities aspire to commit white genocide.
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What Reagan wouldn't even whisper, the city shouted, with protesters imploring the country to pay heed to their legions of friends who were falling ill, and legitimizing a subculture that had largely kept to the shadows but would never be hidden again.
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"This step, although not legitimizing use, is due to reduce the negative perception of the plant as 'immoral' or 'criminal,' increasing openness to its outstanding medicinal and wellness properties," Saul Kaye, a pharmacist and the fund's chief executive, said in a statement.
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While the department store's efforts to be inclusive were applauded by some online, others criticized it for legitimizing the hijab -- a religious headscarf that has been politicized in some parts of the world in recent years and closely tied to women's rights issues.
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The resignation needs to be accepted by Hadi, who last month complained in a letter to the U.N. secretary-general that Griffiths was "legitimizing" the Houthi movement locked in a four-year war with a Saudi-led coalition loyal to the president.
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" When he retired from MoMA in 1967, Barr counted among the museum's accomplishments under his leadership legitimizing "important arts of our time generally ignored by art museums" and encouraging "universities to accept the modern arts as a proper field for scholarly student and publication.
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" In response to the uproar over his remarks, Bardawil later said in a statement that Israel was "legitimizing the killing of Palestinians just because they are Palestinians or just because they are Hamas, even if they were unarmed and defending their dignity and rights.
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The Investigatory Powers bill—championed by former Home Secretary and current UK prime minister Theresa May and sometimes called the "Snooper's Charter"—would create an expansive new legal regime for government mass surveillance in the UK, effectively legitimizing many of the programs exposed by Snowden.
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Pictured behind the desk is a photo of Christie's backside as he famously welcomed President Barack Obama to New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, a moment that drew ire from conservatives who blamed Christie for legitimizing the president right before the 2012 election against Mitt Romney.
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We can keep slogging on, and we probably will, letting the constitutional committee dynamics play out (with much less de-legitimizing impact on Assad than we expect) and possibly opening the way for elections in 2021, although probably with marginal impact on Assad's rule. 4.
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It seems that unless something changes between now and June 12, President Donald J. Trump will hold a summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un—giving the ultimate concession, a legitimizing meeting with the leader of the free world—for nothing in return.
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"But to every LGBTQ person across this nation feeling disheartened and questioning if you have a place in our country, know this: YOU DO." Griffin was telling LGBT folks that a Trump campaign may not view them as human and legitimizing the fear they have.
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In areas with dire need for mainstream healthcare providers, especially where traditional healers recognize that need and their own limitations, it might be most necessary and beneficial to turn them into frontline healthcare providers, no matter the risks of legitimizing their other, uncontrolled practices.
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But direct talks should be conducted by seasoned diplomats, offering an eventual summit meeting only as a carrot at the end of the process — and only if the summit serves some purpose higher than changing the headlines in the U.S. and legitimizing Kim's regime abroad.
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When 11 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend, Mr. Malinowski issued a blistering statement that went far beyond the words of most politicians: "Our highest national leaders are legitimizing rhetoric once confined to the paranoid extremes of our society," he said.
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In particular, tensions have risen with President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has resisted accepting migrants and started an uncertain peace process in Libya that, critics here say, blindsided Italy and weakened its chances of stopping traffickers by legitimizing a rival of Mr. Serraj.
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Combine those numbers with the fact that an entire wing of media has grown up around (and profited on) not only telling viewers what they want to hear but also de-legitimizing and de-humanizing those who disagree, and you have a very potent brew.
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Though many of the rules are nearly identical to those Republicans adopted in 1998 when they impeached President Bill Clinton, party leaders insisted that supporting the resolution amounted to legitimizing what they view as an indefensible three-year campaign to undo the results of the 2016 election.
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There has been no shooting, mercifully, but also no talk of gun control and a lot of legitimizing a potential shooter as mentally disturbed instead of questioning his access to these weapons and the kind of environment that even suggests these actions as viable to him.
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Sadly, Trump may not have the capacity to process what legitimizing the first major annexation of territory in Europe since the end of the Second World War would mean for Putin: a free pass to seize additional territory -- with the three Baltic states serving as easy pickings.
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Kim really gave President Trump no choice, after North Korean propaganda outlets once again made veiled references to a potential nuclear clash with the U.S. After that, President Trump would have looked weak and foolish to meet with the dictator – with a summit essentially legitimizing Kim.
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The exchange, revealed in a declassified, five-page "memorandum of telephone conversation," prompted an unidentified whistle-blower to accuse the president of a quid pro quo, trading a promise of foreign assistance for help in legitimizing an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory and gathering dirt on a political rival.
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Cory Gardner, the Colorado Republican who chairs the chairs the Subcommittee on East Asia, asked if the US would ever consider legitimizing a leader to follow the current Dalai Lama if that person was chosen by China, which has worked to repress Tibetans and vilify their leader.
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It's in that sort of culture where Kirstjen Nielsen, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, was told by chief of staff Mick Mulvaney not to bring up election interference around Trump because the President would assume it was about de-legitimizing his 2016 victory.
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Nearby, Monica Rodriguez's Californiana (2019), a series of ink drawings on paper, reproduces covers and pages from 20th-century books about early California history, books with titles like Indians and Intruders and Women and the Conquest of California, published in service of legitimizing the expansion of American empire.
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After one such attack, in 2017, the Sri Lankan human rights lawyer Gehan Gunatilleke told me that the government's inadequate response is "legitimizing ultra-conservative" Muslim groups, noting that some of the Muslim groups are trying to outdo each on their radicalism to please their Middle Eastern backers.
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Ms. Archila said the protests had been part of a broader effort by activists to call out corporate entities who they see as "legitimizing" the Trump administration's policies, including the aggressive enforcement of immigration policies and the forcible separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border.
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Robert Mogielnicki, an expert on Saudi Arabia at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, said the American snubbing of the conference mattered less than the fact that Silicon Valley companies like SAP and Amazon Web Services continue to expand in Saudi Arabia, legitimizing the kingdom as a global financial player.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment The US can't seem to live without Afghanistan 2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally MORE are pushing back hard against sharp attacks accusing the Hawaii Democrat of legitimizing a tyrant by meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Walking the thin line between legitimizing Trump's theory about the FBI and upholding the integrity of the FBI, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein responded, asking the department's inspector general to expand an ongoing probe into whether the DOJ relied too heavily on the unverified dossier information for obtaining wiretap warrants.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz wrote an op-ed that excoriated Obama for legitimizing the "oppressive" Castro regime, while GOP front-runner Donald Trump scoffed on Twitter that Castro had shown "no respect" for Obama by failing to meet him at the airport as he had other leaders, such as Pope Francis.
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Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, too, are requesting more information about a former Democratic National Committee consultant's interactions with Ukrainian officials during the 2016 election, a move aimed at legitimizing the disproved conspiracy theory that Democrats colluded with Ukraine in an effort to fix the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
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The outpouring of sympathy for Ngo, in this account, is actually evidence that the mainstream media is falling for Ngo's grift — funneling money to his Patreon and legitimizing a right-wing smear campaign against a group that's working to protect people from the threat of violence from groups like the Proud Boys.
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The price of stopping the killing and bringing increased stability to Syria will nonetheless be a steep one: legitimizing a cruel dictator and his Russian supporters and leaving Syria in the hands of a man responsible for mass killing, the use of chemical weapons against his own people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
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Instead of the fat, pimply, basement-dwelling loser portrayed in the book, Technical Boy is now a slick, spoiled Silicon Valley one-percenter brat with the personality of a Nazi Twitter troll (not to mention the effectiveness—his henchmen become literal lynch-mobsters in the premiere, legitimizing online harassment as having real-world consequences).
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By accepting daily verbal assaults on immigrants ("They bring disease"), the European Union ("like Hitler," it wants to impose one authority over Europe), Islam (not part of Europe; Muslims should not be allowed into the United States), torture (bring it back), we are legitimizing a public discourse that may, one day, translate into political decisions.
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And while it is not entirely lost on fashion, as the introduction of performance collections such as Tory Sport and Derek Lam's 2100c Athleta collaboration indicate, such nascent brand extensions may have the unforeseen effect of both legitimizing athleticwear as acceptable everyday clothing, and underscoring the expertise of the traditional sports brands in this area.
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One of the wellsprings of the meth war is everyday cops, they are important producers of this logic—talking to people in the coffee shop, doing anti-drug talks in schools, they continue to spin and spin a yarn that is very important in legitimizing their place in the community and frankly their own power.
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Since then, Ms. Fulton has assisted Mr. Hernández by appearing with David Matamoros, the election commission's leader and a confidant of Mr. Hernández, at a commission facility — seemingly legitimizing the problem-plagued process as it continued its slow count for another three weeks until Sunday, when it announced the inevitable: victory for Mr. Hernández.
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Sure, at some point we might be able to look back and find mordant comedy in an arc like Comey's — who sabotaged Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign by announcing a last-minute investigation of the infamous Weiner laptop and then remade himself as a self-righteous icon of the Resistance by legitimizing "pee tape" rumors.
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But that still raises a question newsrooms have repeatedly had to face in the Trump era: Do you ignore the issue and let Trump and his media allies peddle falsehoods, or do you spend time fact-checking the disinformation, potentially at the cost of giving the issue oxygen and legitimizing it as a news story?
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That decision, maybe like no other, helped usher in a 2016 GOP presidential nominee -- by legitimizing irrationality and bigotry and nativism -- who spent the primaries talking about building walls and a deportation force and thinking fondly of the "Operation Wetback" era but flipped to (sort of) embracing the bipartisan immigration reform bill Boehner unwisely passed on.
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When applied with the weight of the presidency, a salute to a North Korean military official has the effect of legitimizing Mr. Kim's government, Elizabeth N. Saunders, an associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and the author of "Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions," said in an interview.
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New groups like the International Union of Sex Workers have been joined by legacy organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in arguing that legitimizing and legalizing sex work and prostitution will lead to a decrease in exploitation and violence against sex workers, who often come from marginalized groups and face discrimination based on their profession.
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Many saw the move as a step toward legitimizing bitcoin as an asset class, and paving the way for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the U.S. In the letter, Grantham also included a chart illustrating how large and how rapid the bitcoin price surge has been in the last two years compared with other historical bubbles.
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When Mr. Karzai was in power, similar efforts by the United States to start talks with the Taliban — which he, like Mr. Ghani, saw as legitimizing the insurgency and cutting him out of the early steps toward a deal — so angered him that he briefly called off talks with the Americans over a strategic security agreement.
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But the statement was focused on rejecting the idea that his followers had a "penchant for violence" — "Our campaign has held giant rallies all across this country, including in high-crime areas, and there have been zero reports of violence," he wrote — and legitimizing the complaints of his supporters about the fairness of the Nevada convention.
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By interviewing fathers and using big data analysis, my co-author and I found that fathers seek information and support online, use more anonymous social media sites like Reddit to discuss sensitive issues such as divorce and child custody conflicts, and blog about do-it-yourself projects as a way of legitimizing their childcare and domestic work as masculine labor.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, he said, has made it a point of targeting Muslim people with his rhetoric – and legitimizing irrational fears.
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"It's our belief that no institution should be elevating, normalizing or legitimizing any of the Trump immigration officials who are quite honestly carrying out policies that are rooted in the white nationalism that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are so blatantly trying to institutionalize," said Nicole Regalado, the campaign director at Credo Action, an advocacy organization, which helped organize the protest.
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Closer inspection of the Russian proposal has rightly led the western world to believe that, as written, it is a trap, at best intended as a cynical PR move by Putin to give the appearance of seeking a peaceful solution to a conflict he began and sustains, and at worst a means of legitimizing his seizure of Ukrainian territory and "freezing" the conflict.
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But some of his former colleagues, who would not speak on the record, and those who have followed his career said they wondered how he, a prosecutor who took pains to be apolitical, had become the legitimizing force behind Mr. Trump's decision to dismiss Mr. Comey days after the F.B.I. director had told Mr. Rosenstein that he wanted to put more resources into the Russia investigation.
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"The Daily Show" host Trevor NoahTrevor NoahDe Blasio touts height as reason he can beat Trump: 'The tall candidate almost always wins' 'Daily Show' unveils new video game aimed at spurring gun reform Comedy Central shoots down Trump Jr. after he joked network should host Democratic debates MORE is defending his joke about the "African-ness" of France's victorious World Cup soccer team after the French ambassador accused him of "legitimizing" racist ideologies.
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By legitimizing test-only admissions, many well-intentioned people are (perhaps inadvertently) laying blame on the students who are hurt by the policy, implicitly suggesting that they do not work hard, that they need to improve and better demonstrate their academic merit, that the poor admissions results are a byproduct of poverty and failing middle schools and that there are simply not enough qualified black and Latino students to justify more than a handful of admission offers.
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She says she sees more and more medical students seeking residency programs where they are "guaranteed a robust program in reproductive health and social justice issues" and notes that with each subsequent generation of keyed-in women's healthcare providers, they will be the first line of defense in "legitimizing family planning and abortion as well as educating the next generation"—even in the face of zealots in the medical community who fail to see their misogynistic effect on women's health.
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Don Beyer "I wanted to let you know that I am not attending this Friday's inaugural ceremonies ... I will not be part of normalizing or legitimizing a man whose election may well have depended on the malicious foreign interference of Russia's leaders, a person who lies profusely and without apology, who mimics the disabilities of others, who insults anyone who dares disagree with him, who would demonize an entire spiritual tradition, and who has demonstrated again and again a profound disrespect for women," he tweeted.
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"Democratic leaders from Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE down need to stop playing footsie with Trump and pretending we can find common ground on some issues without also legitimizing Trump's bigoted, hate-fueled, un-American agenda," warned Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of Democracy for America, a liberal advocacy group.
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In London, where the crowd was estimated to number at least 10,000, demonstrators gathered outside the prime minister's Downing Street residence, filling Whitehall and spreading out around the Cenotaph – a famous war memorial built after the end of World War I. Surrounded by the grand old buildings that house the British government, the people came to register their opposition to the most divisive ruling the Trump administration has conjured up so far and to the role that many feel their own government is playing in legitimizing and normalizing Trump's actions.
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" Writing in Foreign Affairs this month, Julia Gurganus said that U.S. and Russian aims in Afghanistan are not the same: "The U.S. approach is founded on creating a strong central government in Kabul and a well-equipped and well-trained national security force; Russia, meanwhile, works with a wide range of actors, some of which compete directly with the government in Kabul," even reaching out to the Taliban and "legitimizing a group that continues to threaten the security of both the Afghan government and U.S. and NATO forces.
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