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We’re meeting maybe to legitimize that decision or for somebody to say that that was a collective decision even though it wasn’t.

For Easley, one of the most important steps to helping her husband was learning to legitimize her own position as a caregiver.

Those $2 billion have also served to legitimize the work other companies have been doing to expand the VR experience.

Legitimize contributions of a size that virtually guarantees special attention from office-holders?

He has gone out of his way to legitimize and justify the actions of Putin.

The nightmare that looms ahead now is likely to be a pseudo-democratic process meant to legitimize a popular dictator.

No easy-going doctrines, then, to legitimize vice, says Ozanam.

If the woman has won you round to legitimize the connection, first, I've a proper claim to see her marriage lines.

Very well; I'll legitimize him by marrying the young Clementine.

Huysmans it was who gently persuaded Villiers to make a deathbed marriage and legitimize his son.

He did not dare ask Charity for a divorce in order that he might legitimize this byblow of his.