| Acts of aggression, massacres and corruption legitimise foreign intervention. |
| Only such a premise can legitimise the wholesale domination, enslavement or extermination of other peoples. |
| They will bleed us dry in subsidies and legitimise a lot of the riff-raff coming here in the back of lorries. |
| The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. |
| In the Republic, it was the ending of colonialism, not the advent of welfarism, that did most to legitimise the state. |
| Some opponents have argued that voting will legitimise the on-going occupation. |
