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legitimate 1. authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law 2. of, relating to, or ruling by hereditary right 3. of or relating to a body of famous long-established plays as distinct from films, television, vaudeville, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It means that on one hand, people see the morality of reciprocity as a handy way to legitimatize their resistance against the state; on the other hand, as in certain historical moments, the residents considered it a sustained moral source that ostensibly transcended individual interests, and united them to act collectively to address wider concerns. The latter addition attempts to legitimatize the IRS's losing position in the context of intangibles cost-sharing arrangements, (32) and may engender further controversy. Thus, Japan's step-by-step colonization of Korea, first by turning it into a protectorate (1905), followed by annexation (1910), is put into the context of the Japanese empire's development of conceptual and linguistic tools to legitimatize its status as a colonial power. |
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