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Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos said that the government is aiming to legitimise the existing Okyy board, and spoke of 'a new arbitrariness of the executive'.

"Since I don't recognise the authority of the court I cannot legitimise the Oslo district court by accepting the verdict," Breivik said.

"At the same time I cannot appeal the verdict, because by appealing it I would legitimise the court," he added.

Aside from this, the biggest hurdle confronting election administrators was the lack of an enabling law that would legitimise internet voting.

KEVIN PIETERSEN has welcomed the MCC's decision to legitimise his innovative switch-hitting shot and instead look into its implications for other laws of the game.

I cringe at this craven and transparent attempt to legitimise and make respectable these social pariahs who perform no other function than to raise revenue with menaces.

The MoCA attempts to legitimise its social functions by controlling the discursive space surrounding social work development, and stressing the resemblance between the nature of its social service functions and those of newly imported professional social work model.

Teaching unions fear that the directive will legitimise unscrupulous claims from teachers cashing in on the growing "compensation culture" sweeping the UK.

In order to do this, accountability measures must contest power relations, legitimise marginalised groups, and transform the actors involved.

Birmingham MP Steve McCabe (Lab Hall Green) is to introduce a Private Members Bill to allow Mrs Blood, and an estimated 40 women who have undergone a similar procedure to legitimise the births of their children.

Himani Bannerji's study of the age of consent issue in India shows how British colonialism sought to legitimise itself and lubricate the machinery of governmental administration by way of policy legislation that aimed to reorganise gender relations among the colonised.

Turkish statements on Cyprus are nothing but proof of Ankara's objective to legitimise its illegal actions on the island, the government said on Friday.

CAR boot sales are one way of disposing of unwanted items and perhaps this criteria should be extended to all of our present councillors who now seek to legitimise their massive salaries via the judicial system.

The Foreign Office said Iraq, which has 800,000 Christians, has a history of using state visits to try to ''legitimise its brutal policies."