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delegitimize

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de·le·git·i·mize  (dl-jt-mz)
tr.v. de·le·git·i·mized, de·le·git·i·miz·ing, de·le·git·i·miz·es
To revoke the legal or legitimate status of: "Out of poverty sprout social instability and desperation, which delegitimize governments that declare themselves democratic" (Oscar Arias Sanchez).
dele·giti·mi·zation (-m-zshn) n.


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administration has attempted to domesticate and delegitimize international law by asserting that the Geneva conventions do not apply because America's global war on terrorism is against stateless enemies and, in the case of the Taliban, against the failed state of Afghanistan.
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The fact that existing institutions are unable to represent the interests of ordinary people delegitimizes the system, although the key targets of the protest are the leaders and functional elites of these institutions.
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The revisionists would destroy that truth to portray these individuals as nefarious encroachers on the peaceful Indian, to delegitimize not only the story of the American West, but also the whole of the American experience from Columbus to Carson.
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