Sentences with phrase «lends legitimacy»

Wilson's discussion of the deterioration of social organization within the black community has been criticized for providing ammunition to those opposed to the current welfare policy because his analysis lends legitimacy to those who regard public assistance as a symptom of black pathology.

Almost as if it lends legitimacy to cryptocurrency as a whole.

This is huge news for Bitcoin, because it has allowed Bitcoin to enter the mainstream financial markets which lends legitimacy to the cryptocurrency.

Set aside all the recruitment and retention pitches — the overriding reason why lawyers stay with a firm for the medium - term or beyond is that the firm's brand evokes confidence, lends legitimacy, and enhances the lawyer's personal brand.

In the case of climate change, the denial of science similarly lends legitimacy to military action rather than investment in technology.

Seems like the brain trust at CFACT think that a workbook lends legitimacy to a movie critics raved is «not very watchable,» «very amateurish,» and «not good film making.»

I do wish I had that degree, as it automatically lends legitimacy and legacy to you and whatever business you do.

A photo is also optional, but we strongly encourage uploading at least one pic because it lends legitimacy to dating profiles.

Significantly, the intimation that international intervention propounded a specific narrative of the conflict that lends legitimacy to Museveni's regime may be true, but it was evident that such a discourse did not gain traction across society.

They research employees who manage money and use language specific to the company they are targeting, then they request a wire fraud transfer using dollar amounts that lend legitimacy.

The fact that an institution like Goldman Sachs is making the move into futures and even considering creating a desk to buy and sell Bitcoin should lend legitimacy to the entire cryptocurrency market.

It is ironic, then, that Catholic leaders should lend legitimacy to another carefully manufactured campaign of disinformation with no more basis in fact than the charge that Pius was «Hitler's Pope.»

If we support them, and thereby lend them legitimacy within the community, are we not also complicit in this harm?

Once the progressive admits of the possibility of an error concerning gender identity — which she must do in order to lend legitimacy to the transgendered person's grievance in the face of obvious physiological incongruities — she exposes to the possibility of error her professed organ of gender reality, the will.

At their best, such «chaplains» help to «damp» the explosions of social conflict, to channel it into constructive or at least rational forms (rather than impulsive or self - destructive), to provide links to the other structures of society, to lend legitimacy to the objectives of the militant groups, to help them to weigh the choices before them and to communicate their hopes and needs to the «outside world,» and to supply spiritual nurture and encouragement.

By arguing about homebirth basing your arguments on YOUR homebirth, you're lending legitimacy to all the clowns who disguise themselves as professionals and destroy lives in another country.

Fitzpatrick is thus allowing the administration to leverage his stellar reputation to lend legitimacy to the corruption investigation, which is being led by a small army of district attorneys and former prosecutors, named for the duration of the exercise as deputy attorneys general.

Stem cell scientists fear that the Texas bill would lend legitimacy to the field, provide false hope to patients, and even embolden hucksters touting stem cells as miracle cures for everything from diabetes to multiple sclerosis to spinal injuries.

If not counteracted, this approach can lend legitimacy to debates without scientific merit, Rosenau says.

Satoshi Kanazawa is an evolutionary psychologist who gained attention (I'm not sure fame is the right word) for various outlandish claims, including the assertion that low intelligence is the basis for poverty and disease in places like Africa, drawing critics who suggested that he was trying to lend legitimacy to the faux science of eugenics.

There are dozens and dozens of these «products» on the market (and I hesitate to call them such and thus lend them legitimacy).

Some people don't think they ever were but I have a feeling they lend legitimacy to an otherwise fringe contender.

They have been in charge for 10 months now, and have done nothing more than expand the scammy operations of the company, and, of course, lend it legitimacy.

Whenever it comes to submitting a claim for theft or vandalism, you need to give your renters insurance company a copy of the police report to lend legitimacy to your claim.

Dealers and art experts say a museum curator's involvement has myriad benefits for a gallery, lending legitimacy to their shows.

When a neighbourhood is all one need mention to lend legitimacy to the idea of contemporary art's role, minor as it might be, not just in DC's precincts of influence and status peddling but, more importantly, in the latest middlebrow entertainment, does that mean it has jumped the shark?

By continuing to obsess over it we only lend it legitimacy.

Whenever it comes to submitting a claim for theft or vandalism, you need to give your renters insurance company a copy of the police report to lend legitimacy to your claim.

... government agencies need to be better informed about the importance of the different governance relationships and hierarchies that lend legitimacy to different aggregations and scales, for different purposes.

Not exact matches

Nixon said the Germans are probably suffering from a «lack of legitimacy» at the central bank and are still very concerned about the impact of quantitative easing — a massive stimulus program following the euro zone debt crisis of 2011 that's designed to boost lending but also stoke inflation.

And so, media outlets were forced to lend Trump legitimacy, in part to stay in business and in part because of traditional journalistic beliefs about objectivity.

As he franchised his concept starting in the»50s, selling the recipe for his Kentucky fried chicken to restaurants across the U.S., this identity as a Kentucky colonel linked Sanders to a southern ideal that lent the Indiana - born man an air of legitimacy.

Bank of Montreal's medical marijuana financing debut may herald more competition for institutions already doing cannabis - related business, but it could also lend more legitimacy to the industry, some players say.

Though religious principles may not have a direct effect on economic behavior, they can lend religious and ideological legitimacy to new motivations, activities, and institutions.

Yesterday's chip paper in England is today's chip paper in Spain, which in turn becomes tomorrow's in England again, this time with a shiny new source in Spain, which lends it a new air of legitimacy.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

And Daisy Paez, a district leader for the 65th Assembly District, has agreed to join the club, lending the New Downtown Democrats an air of legitimacy with at least one elected member.

The black box of an algorithm, on the other hand, lends undue legitimacy to the police targeting certain locations while simultaneously removing accountability.

To me this is a prime example of «Bro science» where the same unsubstantiated claims are echoed repeatedly through men's «health» magazines and weightlifting magazines, with some reinforcement from Paleo «academics», until the shear volume of it lends a air of legitimacy to the recommendations to dramatically over consume protein and it becomes something that «everybody just knows».

The game wasn't too great (it was far more of an interactive movie than it was anything that allowed much expression or experimentation), but the fact that Aykroyd and Harold Ramis helped write it lent it an air of legitimacy.

Michael Douglas is having a fantastic time, and his ever - present voice lends an air of legitimacy to proceedings.

Unlike those who came before him, and many of his contemporaries who wrote in French or Latin, Chaucer wrote in the English vernacular thus lending credibility and legitimacy to the language.

They shouldn't call this the 77th Annual Writer's Digest Publishing competition... they should call it the Writers Digest Publishing Contest To Lend False Legitimacy to the Vanity Press Scam Artists Who Advertise in our Magazine... but I guess that title is too long.

The first step consumers can take in determining the legitimacy of a Tennessee consumer lending company is to check its website for specific information.

The fact that they are regulated lends credence to their legitimacy as well as their reliability.

Some credit repair companies choose to become a member of NACSO to lend more legitimacy to their business and to help change the story around the credit repair industry.

So, you aren't required to put a vest or badge on your emotional support animal, though some people feel that this lends them an air of legitimacy.

Created a number of major franchises that are easily recognizable around the world, received numerous awards, and has helmed Entertainment Analysis & Development (Nintendo's game development arm) for what seems like decades — meaning that he's been in a management position for a long time, lending to the legitimacy of his candidacy.

Cheers, screaming, and competitive camaraderie continued to permeate through our conversation, inadvertently lending credence to the comment's legitimacy.

Basically, this is the stuff the Tate wouldn't normally be seen dead with, yet the onboard presence of the Tate's international and historic status lends a spurious legitimacy to this «floating showcase for the very best of British contemporary art with 7,000 different pieces from 55 artists decorating the ship.»