Many Sunni groups are reluctant to join a process that might legitimise a new American-created order.
How it would work in practice is unclear, but critics fear that it will legitimise mob rule.
Zia ul Haq, his successor, tried to legitimise his military coup by pledging to Islamise the country.
The judges might then legitimise this legally dubious step or so it is argued.
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Whether there will be enough to legitimise the assembly in the eyes of their brethren remains to be seen.
Non-democratic regimes, they argue, can use the presence of observers to legitimise crooked elections, whatever reservations the observers express.
These indicators also increasingly serve to legitimise types of intervention and operating modes of aid and policies of development.
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Nothing can legitimise poverty and injustice at this scale, not even fig-leaf democracies.
Or is it merely window-dressing for the international community, which would legitimise our generals to continue to hold onto power?
In exchange, Ms Suu Kyi promised to rejoin (and so legitimise) the political process, and to work to lift sanctions.
America and Britain introduced a new Security Council resolution to end sanctions on Iraq, and legitimise the occupying powers' authority.
America's granting of a visa to Gerry Adams helped to legitimise Sinn Fein, secure a ceasefire and get talks going.
Should the censors legitimise illicitly made digital films by granting them screen permits, or risk driving their creators further underground?
State-run media said the game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, attempted to legitimise murder and assassination in the name of entertainment.
Dr Quayle also believes that mixing in such a community helps to legitimise an interest in images of child sex abuse.
From now on, it will be harder for Mr Bush to point to his partnership with Britain to legitimise the occupation of Iraq.
Mrs Thatcher arguably did more than any major UK politician at the time to legitimise the environment as a concern at the highest level.
Even members of his own Cambodian People's Party agree that Mr Hun Sen's only interest in an election is to legitimise his own power.
The recent parliamentary elections showed that the political structure he has carefully built up to legitimise and prolong his rule has become less effective.
For critics like Mr Pavin, the rush to prosecute is not really about protecting the monarchy but about exploiting its prestige to legitimise the royalist establishment.
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Organisations such as the Traditional Healers Organisation have for years been trying to legitimise the practice and have it held in the same regard as Western medicine.
These are figures with enormous powers - and the pressure to legitimise them through some kind of parliamentary approval system has been building for quite a while.
Apart from the immediate safety concerns, Greenpeace also argues that the North Korean deal, if it proceeds, would legitimise the notion of dealing with waste by exporting it.
And the apparent willingness to amend electoral laws suggests one ready to legitimise Miss Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), which is at present technically illegal.
But its terms would exclude many rebels and seem more designed to pardon Russian troops, while the election will most likely be a way to legitimise a pro-Moscow puppet.
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This might also explain the lady's modest adornments and the more expensive jewels of her daughter, who this portrait would help to legitimise as a member of the Titian household.
There has been speculation that use of this phrase could legitimise government interference into the operations of smaller internet service providers (ISPs) and cloud-based operations such as Google or Facebook.
He could cite the need for better relations with the West to legitimise the financial interests of the Russian elite, and the inefficiency of the security services as a support base.
It tells us about themes insurgents consider best to mobilise activists or legitimise actions, and gives us information on internal debates and levels of coordination, and about shifts in tactics and strategy.
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