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The Mayor is moving to delegalize any peddling that "impedes the flow" of pedestrian traffic.

We cannot delegitimize them simply because they or their leaders made a mistake.

"This election is a serious cut, which will delegitimize him.

So it is dangerous business when a man who would be president tries to delegitimize a court.

He wants to delegitimize half the people of Israel?

If Iran completes its program, that would completely delegitimize the international system.

"If done poorly, it will further delegitimize the system and make discipline even less effective."

And only they will have the words in Arabic to delegitimize this suicide trend.

"That's why the Palestinians are a threat, because you threaten to delegitimize us."

A healthy, democratic community will welcome such strangers in order to "question and delegitimize its own identity."

He thinks he can delegitimize and call this a unity Government?

But the political manipulation of imagery doesn't delegitimize its content.

Opponents of the analogy claim it is intended to delegitimize Israel.

"This is an attempt to delegitimize Arab political participation."

At one end of the spectrum, these criticisms support attempts to delegitimize Israel's right to exist.

Pretending can only delegitimize the idea of peace.

The only ones who can delegitimize and root out these forces in any sustained way are Muslim societies themselves.

We'll delegitimize Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes but never accept him.

In this respect of note are attempts to delegitimize the land reform of 1944.

"Both sides are playing this to delegitimize the other candidate," said a disenchanted former official of the Gore campaign.

Only their own religious communities and societies can really restrain and delegitimize them.

The religious parties get less than 5 percent of the vote in Pakistan, and so democracy can delegitimize extremism as well.

They are a part of a deliberate campaign to delegitimize the creation and existence of Israel.

He also strongly attacks attempts to delegitimize Israel's existence.

In 2012, the president said, "whenever an effort is made to delegitimize the State of Israel, my administration has opposed them."

And he has to delegitimize, to outlaw the other armed groups who don't take his orders."

Such measures achieve the opposite, that is to say they delegitimise the power and value of the laws.

Israel has also called the campaign a "provocation intended to delegitimise Israel".

Back then, the aim was to delegitimise the prevailing power structure by removing the stigma from protesting against unjust laws.

The Foreign Secretary underlined the UK's opposition to efforts to delegitimise Israel.

It has been suggested that it was written to delegitimise one of William's sons, Robert Curthose.

In order to delegitimise the camp, lots of passersby I met wanted to pigeonhole the protesters as either unrealistic youngsters, or lazy layabouts.

Khamenei briefly mentioned the letter in his combative sermon at Friday prayers, during which he accused foreign powers of conspiring to delegitimise the vote.

Freedom of the press in Italy is nothing more than an attempt by publishing groups, magistrates and politicians to delegitimise the Prime Minister and his government.

Obama plainly defended Israel's right to exist and its place in the community of nations, pledging to resist attempts to "delegitimise" the homeland of the Jews.

Searchlight magazine described the magazine's intention as "to delegitimise anti-racism, anti-fascism and liberal democracy in favour of... ethnic separation, bigoted regionalism and chauvinistic nationalism".

Earlier this week, Adam Tomkins, a law professor at Glasgow University, accused Salmond of trying to "delegitimise" the supreme court, ahead of the referendum issue coming before it.

"The aim is clearly to delegitimise the organisation at a time when its rights-based analysis coincides with the some of the views of the US president Barack Obama," Philps continued.

On the one hand, it is concerned about the steadily declining turnout for European elections, which reflects the citizens' lack of interest and may, if it continues, and I quote, 'delegitimise the elections to the European Parliament'.

Nabil, who has been staging a high-profile hunger strike against his conviction bya military tribunal, recently avoided being committed to a psychiatric hospital after the authorities attempted to use popular stigma over mental health problems to delegitimise his cause.

Even if there is a glimmer of hope that the Euro will survive, the bypassing of democracy in Italy and Greece, and the current direction within which Europe is heading is enough to delegitimise the Euro.

However the other three authors of the Goldstone Report have publicly rejected this arguing Goldstone has "misrepresented facts in an attempt to delegitimise the [Goldstone Report's] findings and to cast doubts on its credibility".

Regarding the statements that Mr Herrero made on Venezuelan television, I can tell you that they served to delegitimise the electoral process, made serious accusations against democratic institutions in that country, and bordered on interference in the internal politics of a sovereign country.

The head of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society Faisal Fulad, who was implicated in the Bandargate scandal, believe that the continued attempts to discredit the BICI are part of a concerted campaign by the opposition to delegitimise the Commission's findings.

He added that the Palestinian delegation did not seek to delegitimise "a country created here many years ago," but to save the peace process and that the Palestinians would not accept anything less than independence and sovereignty, with east Jerusalem as the national capital, all pre-1967 territories and a right of return for refugees.

Rabbi Pinter accused the JPR of pursuing its own agenda in reporting on synagogue membership alone, alleging that the JPR had a "discredited track record in trying to delegitimise the position of the Chief Rabbi and artificially boost the position of the Progressives".