Their moves provoked massive opposition from Egypt's now fully legitimated and empowered populist forces.

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In 1935, Congress passed the Wagner Act, which created the National Labor Relations Board and legitimated unions.

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With help from successive U.S. administrations, they have been legitimated in their bid to be seen as the sole representatives of American Muslims.

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Will an American presence on the ground mean that the Serb aggression in Bosnia is rewarded and legitimated instead of being reversed and punished?

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As a consequence, the trade in such technologies, legitimated and encouraged by the bans, has provided a perfect cover for the proliferation of mass-destruction capabilities around the globe.

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Most important, the fact that a Democratic president has now legitimated the moves of a Republican administration gives a bipartisan imprimatur to the legitimacy of the current tax rates.

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He called up the reserves but then failed to deploy them in sufficient numbers in battle until after the UN Security Council had already passed a ceasefire resolution that legitimated Hizbullah and ignored its state sponsors in Syria and Iran.

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In fact, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England and former Under Secretaries of State Nick Burns and Karen Hughes are among the senior U.S. government officials who have lavished praise on the group and legitimated ISNA by meeting with Dr. Mattson and others.

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