Possible Clues:

• Qualify, needing points to top championship
• Give name to
• Give the right name ...
• Give (someone) a right to do something
• Give peerage to John Prescott finally -- it'll mostly, primarially exemplificate upholding of English?
• Seen in undergarment? It lessens style
• Portion of document, it legitimises warrant
• Give a right (to someone to do something)
• Qualify to have a bird in the French holding
• Sanction