It is the sign of a healthy society when the legitimacy of the institutions and people in whom we trust is tested. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Lack of legitimacy is often made up for by increased brutality. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Hijacking your papers racks to get some legitimacy is pretty low. From Wordnik.com. [Burns away] Reference
This last issue, of regulatory legitimacy, is the really important one. From Wordnik.com. [Who should control the Net?] Reference
Your legitimacy is beginning to look as legitimate as the Iranian government's. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigner-in-Chief to team up with Corzine] Reference
Each gross sinner that is tolerated within her calls her legitimacy in question. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)] Reference
He's using the word legitimacy, which we haven't heard from a U.S. president in some time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2009] Reference
In this case the viewers vote like a direct democracy, and the legitimacy comes from the people. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving the Church of Democracy: What's It Gonna Take?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
HEMMER: When you mention the word legitimacy, are you reflecting on the idea of the caucus itself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2004] Reference
BLITZER: Fareed, the president using the word legitimacy now in talking about Israeli settlements. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2009] Reference
How can the TNSG maintain legitimacy if one of their members violates the above portion of the law?. From Wordnik.com. [James Lynn Carr] Reference
Its legitimacy is based on its capacity to deliver economically, not on bankrupt communist ideology. From Wordnik.com. [History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly] Reference
That makes it more similar to a law, which gets its legitimacy from the recognized authority of the lawmaker. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
But legitimacy is something which can never be proven and if you have to assert it, you have already lost it. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence] Reference
BLITZER: ... he suggested they were illegal, that your settlement activity -- when he used the word legitimacy?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2009] Reference
The state's legitimacy is thus questioned and openly ridiculed, at least by a certain section of the population. From Wordnik.com. [Dogs: Iran's new symbol of rebellion] Reference
I believe the apparent legitimacy is enhanced by the fact that I used a complicated computer program to make the fit. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 7, 2004 - March 13, 2004 Archives] Reference
Such legitimacy is only gained if a healthy dialectic relationship exists between those who rule and those they rule over. From Wordnik.com. [Radovan Karadzic's website and blog] Reference
In the geopolitical marketplace, legitimacy is based on effectiveness, and must be proven in comparison with other superpowers. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Majority of Americans agree with Obama's Iran approach] Reference
The report, released in late May 2009, states the Tribunal's legitimacy is threatened by charges of corruption and political interference. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Cambodia: Report outlines Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s latest troubles] Reference
It is, instead, "legitimacy" -- something genuine or in accordance with law. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
So I think stirring up doubt about his legitimacy is a good tactic. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
And we certainly subscribe to the notion of legitimacy in what we do. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004] Reference
"The regime is internally losing its legitimacy, which is of its own doing.". From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
Under the Macedonian emperors, the idea of legitimacy became firmly established. From Wordnik.com. [976] Reference
Israel’s flagging international legitimacy is one of Olmert’s preoccupations. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven] Reference
My understanding is that unions don’t get their legitimacy from the government. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Bringing Iraq Online] Reference
However, legitimacy is something that if you have to assert it, you don’t have it. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident] Reference
A low Pashtun turnout could call the legitimacy of the election results into question. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
"But there is one thing called legitimacy, thousands of people voted us to power," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
The GAO suspects fraud in Ohio in 2004, calling the legitimacy of Bush's re-election into question. From Wordnik.com. [The Handwriting on the Wall] Reference
In the meantime, the defendants and their allies are calling the legitimacy of the proceedings into question. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
His whole regime depends on his being seen as legitimate, and hearings would call his legitimacy into question. From Wordnik.com. [Open letter to Rep. Barbara Lee] Reference
(David (in a comment) suggests that this fact shows only that my concept of legitimacy is too weak to be useful. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Japanese American internment Archives] Reference
It's the problem that political thinkers describe as the legitimacy of a system - its 'right' to order you around. From Wordnik.com. [The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2002] Reference
Most of these ads contain proclamations of legitimacy, which is another indication that the offer is most likely a scam. From Wordnik.com. [Beware of Work at Home Scams] Reference
"Their aim is to deprive the elections of legitimacy, that is absolutely clear," he said in his home city of St Petersburg. From Wordnik.com. [Putin accuses US of meddling in Russia vote] Reference
There's still - the clerics are an enormously important part of the equation of the notion of legitimacy within the country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2009] Reference
This doesn’t work at all though, when we elect people who’s only claim to popular legitimacy is that they do as they’re told. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Profiles in “Courage”] Reference
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