legitimise造句

The rest of the region, led by Brazil, says that this would legitimise a coup.

Rosneft wants its 5% stake in BP because it helps to legitimise the break-up of Yukos.

Sometimes worldly rulers draw on religious symbolism to enforce their authority, impress their subjects or legitimise war.

And yet Japanese investors are also beginning to show an activist streak, helping to legitimise the foreigners' objectives if not their tactics.

Earlier this year the Bush administration signed a co-operation deal with India which, if approved by Congress, would legitimise its nuclear military programme.

This loya jirga is intended to legitimise the power sharing arrangement set up in Bonn and begin to iron out at least some of the inequalities in representation.

Such assurances have failed to convince critics of R2P, who are adamant that the whole idea is just a cover to legitimise armed interference by rich Western powers in the affairs of poor countries.

legitimise choices made in the Kremlin, it is Mr Putin who will decide who and what follow him, if he leaves office, as he is supposed to, in 2008.