11.   Porat said he and Peled were helping to lend greater legitimacy to the movement.

12.   But an exiled leader of the front again rejected the proposal for presidential elections, saying it would only lend legitimacy to the regime.

13.   For Jiang and Li, unification would lend legitimacy to a Communist Party battered by rampant corruption, popular indifference and the irrelevance of its own Marxist ideology.

14.   It lends added legitimacy to a possible U.S. strike and is another diplomatic victory for the Bush administration.

15.   Meanwhile, Israeli Likud party official Yuval Steinitz said the meeting between Annan and Nasrallah lent legitimacy to a group that should be considered a terrorist organization.

16.   This alarmed Arafat, who sees elections as a way to consolidate support for the peace treaty on the street and lend legitimacy to his own rule.

17.   Israel has repeatedly asked foreign officials not to go to Orient House, saying such visits lend legitimacy to Palestinian claims over annexed east Jerusalem.

18.   Like other great national collections, the National Palace Museum artworks lend symbolic legitimacy to the government that possesses them, Sensabaugh said by telephone from New York.