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Legitimate

Used in the context of general equities. Real interest in trading as compared to a profile stance. See: Natural.

Legitimate

Describing a security or trade in which a prospective buyer intends to buy without any illegal intentions, such as price manipulation.

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She may have some general idea about Becker's role as a pioneer in bringing economics into the family realm and as an avid legitimator of the patriarchal family.

Gary Becker, legal feminism, and the costs of moralizing care

participation as a "particularly venerable legitimator of local

Searching for balance in the aftermath of the 2006 takings initiatives

Thus tablets inscribed to dead West Indian planters--purchased by mail order and shipped perilously abroad--confirmed that the dead had not died and gone to heaven, but rather to an England that they had never really left and that remained an unchanging legitimator of the cultural project the planters had been furthering.

Playing the monument game: a new book examines the Ozymandiases of the First British Empire

Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq." (18) According to The Washington Post, Ledeen has been regularly consulted by Karl Rove, who said to him "anytime you have a good idea, tell me"; more than once, in fact, "Ledeen has seen his ideas, faxed to Rove, become official policy or rhetoric." (19)

Machiavelli meets the religious right: Michael Ledeen, the neoconservatives, and the political uses of fundamentalism

Charter--and hence the Security Council--to be the world's singular legitimator of the use of force, Professor Dinstein states the Charter, which he describes as an "international world constitution," stabilizes the "fragile limes protecting the international community against forces of chaos and barbarism." (138)

Rediscovering international law through dialogue rather than diatribe: reflections on an international legal conference in the aftermath of operation Iraqi freedom

Because TNT's westerns invariably take place within a specific historical period, history serves as a central legitimator and attraction for viewers investing their viewing time to the programs.

Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films and the social construction of authenticity

While the issue writ large may be the extent to which higher education can protect its monopoly as a knowledge legitimator, these domain differences also suggest the potential for increased disparity across knowledge areas in how academic units are valued by their external stakeholder s.

The formal organization of knowledge: an analysis of academic structure

The first is the most commonly identified: Keynes as a theorist of market failure and legitimator of government intervention.

The Political and Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes (1). (Review Essay/Revue Critique)

[T]he Court, through its history, has acted as the legitimator of the government." Charles L.

The steel seizure case: one of a kind? (Youngstown at fifty: a symposium)

IT IS NOT A STRANGE IDEA that law has historically been closer to ideology (as a legitimator of the current order) rather than to utopia (or the attempt to subvert the status quo), following the familiar Karl Mannheim's terminology, particularly in written law countries stemming from the Roman-Canonic tradition to which many European and almost all Spanish speaking countries in America belong.

Miguel Angel Ramiro Aviles. Utopia y Derecho: El sistema juridico en las sociedades ideales