"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From the point of view of Paisley and the DUP the elections were an important point on the road to acquiring political legitimacy.
- On the basis of that episode alone, the Government has never acquired legitimacy in the eyes of many South Koreans.
- The post-Amin regimes in Uganda were characterised by corruption, factionalism and an inability to restore order and acquire popular legitimacy.
- As the Iraqi government acquires legitimacy, the hateful resistance - which has killed many more Iraqis than Americans - will lose its standing.
- Democratic institutions were installed in 1890 with the promulgation of a constitution and continued to acquire legitimacy until the 1920s, when they fell into disrepute.
- Such courses have to develop an element of 'theory' or 'analysis'in order to acquire academic legitimacy; which risks producing a counter-reaction from practitioners.
- And ever since the arranged marriage of the blues and Tin Pan Alley, jazz has been built on outrageous pairings that only later acquired legitimacy.
- All governments and powerful groups seek to acquire legitimacy, for the very good reason that it is the most efficient and stable basis for exercising power.
- Only that way will the work of the Union acquire legitimacy, which is to say the general approval of the public.
- I believe that Members only acquire legitimacy through election.
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