Legitimated

How then have those that have led the charge into alternatives fended off such criticisms and thereby legitimated what they do?

But these same regimes are being legitimated by the international order.

Casimir managed to have Anne and Cunigunde legitimated by Pope Urban V on 5 December 1369.

Harrison has also suggested that literal readings of the Genesis narratives of the Creation and Fall motivated and legitimated scientific activity in seventeenth-century England.

Hedwig the younger was legitimated by Pope Gregory XI on 11 October 1371.

His mother was at first against the marriage because she looked down on Sophia Dorothea's mother (who was not of royal birth), and because she was concerned by Sophia Dorothea's legitimated status.

Processes of globalization carried religious cosmologies – including traditional conceptions of universalism – to the corners of the world, while these cosmologies legitimated processes of globalization.

The first is the so-called liberal revolution, the shift from monarchies of the ancient régime, where inheritance legitimated political power, to constitutional republics..

Those who follow Michel Foucault 's line of thought see the ritual of the executions 'as a site in which social control is maintained and legitimated'.

When they married after co-habiting for several years all children born previously were subsequently legitimated by Act of Parliament.