How To Use Legitimate In A Sentence

China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
If the state thinks it is legitimate then it legitimates its own laws.

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If you're a consumer and you get spam from a "legitimate" company, call them up and let them know how angry you are.
In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance. CSO
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
A woman responding to a survey about the experience of illegitimates in 1986 said that her mother ‘was put in an orphanage and did not get full knowledge about her parents until she was 55.’
Workers in East Asia thus need to explore and combine a variety of tactics to defend their legitimate interests.
Only a legitimate government can tackle the festering grievances in the north.
Sexual pleasure between Greek male citizens and boys was legitimate and socially sanctioned, however if the boy become a free citizen (an equal) their sexual practice become problematised.
The capitalist who, alone or in conjunction with his fellows, performs some great industrial feat by which he wins money is a welldoer, not a wrongdoer, provided only he works in proper and legitimate lines. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
They are a legitimate use of force insofar as they are used in defense and retaliation against foreign aggression.
The irony being, if Spurs do become legitimate contenders for the title and pip City to it, therefore Man City sponsor their own downfall. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
The only defender with a legitimate excuse is CB Ryan McNeil, who is playing with a soft cast on his fractured forearm.
Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
He says tenancy databases are an important and legitimate tool which help real estate agents carry out their job responsibly.
How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
Sometimes the counterfeiters are fly-by-night operations, but just as often they're legitimate companies that have a dark side.
The problem is that cowboys like this give legitimate piercers/tattooists a bad name.
He does not accept homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle, and of course he believes in evangelizing among nonbelievers. November 2004
The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
ECLECTICISM : Nor can we find any willingness to make common cause with false religiosity as long as Christianity is accepted as one among many legitimate viewpoints.
Sparano says that as tough as it was to climb from the NFL basement into a playoff team last season, taking the next step to be a consistent, legitimate contender might be a harder task. 'This camp ain't for everybody:' Sparano, Dolphins turn up heat
Under the substitutional theory of artifact production, the forgeries of documents so common in the Middle Ages can be understood as the legitimate reproduction of accidentally misplaced facts.
Some products will benefit from being generally available for photography or for legitimate testing.
Daniel had paraded his stolen goods, making them appear legitimate. IN A STRANGE CITY
Slave law backed up and legitimated the private power of slaveowners.
International Business Machines Corp. is one company that raised concerns about how it would be affected by the Dodd-Frank Act. It is among several large corporations that believe, without further clarification in rulemaking, they may be unintentionally caught up in the definition of a "major swaps participant" — essentially a non-dealer that regularly engages in swaps — despite their swaps being legitimate. Minimum Thresholds for Swaps Urged
Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimate collective effort to protect our children" and said he supported them.
Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
He believes that fundamental issues about the way we run the world are legitimate cause for concern.
A colorable claim is something that may not be legitimate but merely appears to have legitimacy.
Saturday nights, walked through the meadows and round by the mill and back home past the creek on Sunday afternoons, taken his seat in the brake for the annual outing, shuffled his way through the polka at the tradesmen's ball, and generally seized all legitimate opportunities for sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, has a hundred advantages which your successful careerer lacks. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
Gatz - I didn't think to save my entry before submitting it ... but it was to do with the thrill of discovering new music (and Tinariwen set me off on a monumental world music quest so felt legitimate to say something so seemingly cliched) then being accused of 'ululation' by the wife when caught singing along to it ... Word Magazine - Comments
In the end, James concedes that modern Celts exist as a legitimate ethnic group on the grounds that they are self-naming and have a shared sense of difference and history.
Of course, what happens when a perfectly legitimate emailer is labeled as a spammer by such a system, and their own emails slow to a crawl?
We seek a solution that addresses the legitimate concerns of iwi, that is acceptable to the vast majority of New Zealanders, and that ensures public access to our beaches is protected. National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business.
The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
Of course, a decision not to have children is a legitimate choice, and whoever makes it owes no explanation.
Beyond that, McCord said she hopes to get a job and find a legitimate way to obtain a college education.
Authority is thus another word for legitimate power.
What his biggest desire was to buy a ricksha , thinking that if had it he woude not bear anyone's anger. However, this legitimate aspiration became an extravagant hope at that times.
I will limit myself to noting that the legal answer is, in my view, yes — but how you get to yes differs depending upon whether you think this particular targeting is in an armed conflict in a strict legal sense, or whether you think it is an act of legitimate self-defense, as the Legal Adviser referenced in his ASIL speech. The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
But when these rants are offered abroad as legitimate criticisms of this country, it is a cultural crime.
Must be illegitimate - election, what election, he "lucked" into job. Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
Furthermore, I feel it is perfectly legitimate, in the interests of creating a good drama, to telescope events or create symbolic scenes.
Beyond that, McCord said she hopes to get a job and find a legitimate way to obtain a college education.
It is a shame that the Canadian toponymic committee does not recognize exclamation marks as being a legitimate part of place names! VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
Log in to your online accounts regularly, and check bank, credit and debit card statements to ensure that all transactions are legitimate.
Benevolent autocracy is an uncertain foundation for legitimate and sustainable national governance.
However, as the legal proof showing the marriage relationship, the certificate is an important tool to protect one's legitimate rights.
But there are also huge savings available from legitimate Canadian pharmacies dispensing quality medicines.
But vote groups are concerned asking people for more information could disenfranchise legitimate voters on election day.
These prejudices are gradually and silently melting away; and it is cheering to see the better feelings of our nature effectively advancing the art to its legitimate place in education, under the guise of gymnastics and callisthenics. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
He had three offshore companies registered in the Isle of Man for legitimate tax avoidance purposes prior to his bankruptcy.
His scheme was revealed as he allegedly attempted to transfer $80 million in funds from legitimate accounts into accounts he controlled using fraudulent wire transfers and counterfeit cheques.
If we don't allow people to hug our Republicans without a legitimate reason, it's for reasons of sustainability, not necessarily a lack of pulchritude. Entering Massachusetts: Please Don't Hug the Republicans
Every political system defines its boundaries of legitimate action differently.
The bassoon is the legitimate bass to the oboe and to the wood wind in general. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
[) S] abac from the Hungarians, expressed a legitimate Byzantine policy; and the siege of Malta, one of his latest ventures, might also be defended as The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
The broader question was whether that attitude was legitimate.
At what point does indecision, does the inability to act at all, become legitimately frightening?
The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
The army must give power back to the legitimate government.
That the woman has been forced to forgo her rights and the fact that the relationship is shrouded in secreecy render misyar marriage totally illegitimate. Arabnews - frontpage
Its effect is to confine any exceptions to certain special cases provided such excepted use does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
In this context it would mean that the legitimate concerns of the complainant that the alleged misconduct should be properly scrutinised by the professional body, would be ignored.
This reduction includes legitimate business oversight, and may even extend, I have been told, to actual malversation of funds.
Charcoal burning was represented as a legitimate way out of the person's financial predicaments.
Conversely, a claim of a right to secede from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate.
But the big question is whether or not he can really move forward with what he called his tough diplomacy with Iran if, in fact, Iran's own people don't consider its own leader legitimate. CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2009
To the extent that educational programs purport to teach social knowledge, legitimate opportunities for social interaction must be provided.
I think these few details from the days we knew one another should be sufficient to legitimate my request.
In 1533, the first Henrician Act of Succession had reaffirmed the ruling of the Church of England that she was illegitimate. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
I have looked at it and I have seen a bigger rise in Ireland, where there is no gay marriage and illegitimate children.
A port operator shall not make a monopoly of the operation or conduct illegitimate competition and shall not by any means compel another person to accept the port services he provides.
It was legitimate to argue that if you had made up your mind not to challenge your immurement then you should make sure that the time was not wasted. Chapter 13 - Stage Two
Deadly antipersonnel mines are no longer viewed as a legitimate weapon of war, and it is time for the US to recognize that reality with a decision to sign on to the treaty.
This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner: for he applied, not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the Parliament for an Act by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
I feel lucky to live in an era where my relationship can be considered legally legitimate and I commend the UK Government for embracing this very basic Civil Liberty.
Such conjecture is not only legitimate; it's necessary and urgent. Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head
He resigned himself to becoming a legitimate baller at linebacker.
The high incidence of white-collar crime poses a serious threat to entrepreneurship and the future of legitimate business activities in Eastern Europe.
This kind of disingenuousness validates dangerous nonsense as legitimate opinion and sets the table for extremism. Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs
There are illegitimate children over the years, accusations of collusion with Nazis, shadowy tales of unrequited longing and profound unfairness.
There are some cases in which the efforts of conservatives to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support, but other cases in which this has legitimated fascism.
We want to legitimate this process by passing a law.
Today, it is widely accepted among doctors and homeopaths that some ingredients found in tea do have legitimate curative properties.
It is here that government is most likely to be acting on the basis of illegitimate considerations such as self-protection, or protection of powerful private groups.
Creatine monohydrate took the world by storm and gave bodybuilders and athletes a legitimate way to build muscle, increase strength, and enhance performance.
Such a system of extralegal detention, sometimes called black jails, "damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image, " the article said.
He says the growth in demand has paved the way for less legitimate businesses to snap up custom.
Legitimate power stems from a position's placement in the managerial hierarchy and the authority vested in the position.
Then there's the well-funded greenhouse denialist think-tanks on the lookout for any evidence, argument or anecdote that might raise public doubts - legitimate or otherwise - about the growing strength of the scientific consensus.
They had pre-booked the ferry sailings in advance - a legitimate company could barely have moved the goods that quickly.
There are 310,000,000 reasons to vote, one for every American raised to believe that government has a legitimate role to play in assuring the well-being, safety, and security of its citizens. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
A candleholder that looked like the illegitimate offspring of a horse and a dachshund Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
The pope has made a openly declared and unshakeable anti-Semite a legitimate bishop," Politi added.
It is about whether originalism is the only touchstone of legitimate constitutional interpretation.
I can legitimately lay claim to have done something that millions of God gospellers from all over the globe have for thousands of years said that the mysterious bloke called Jesus Christ is gonna do.
The tour guide helpfully tells tourists that the sculptures were brought to London for safekeeping, and acquired legitimately.
BRAND: I think you would want to press the procedures that were used, see whether the wiretaps have been legitimately authorized, whether all the material that was wiretapped, including some things that we lawyers call exculpatory -- that is, things that tend to prove your innocence -- are not on the tapes or that should be on the tapes and available to you. CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008
But I believe - most of us believe - that this is not a legitimate area for Government interference.
In peacetime, the business became legitimate and was fueled by a consumer boom.
The local authority has used an aircraft to provide thermal images of the area in order to pinpoint all the illegal landfills on the site which is used for legitimate quarrying by CRH.
At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted.
She published her fic as a legitimate novel, and it had a rabid online fanbase.
Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
He wore his royal robes with dignity and gave a huge lift to the wider acceptance of the calypso, as a legitimate cultural medium of social commentary, picong and musical delight. TrinidadExpress Today's News
More recently, the Mafia had developed a legitimate claim on him. CHAMELEON
Or maybe it's just as simple as the fact you don't even have an account with that company which tips you off that this is not a legitimate request for your personal information.
It seemed a perfectly legitimate question.
Meanwhile, the FDA says it will tighten requirements for drug wholesalers so it's tougher to sneak counterfeits into legitimate supplies.
It is important to recognize that (the)... prohibition against sexual harassment does not extend to legitimate nonsexual touching or other nonsexual conduct.
Where we're talking about cultic artefacts, where the right to exclusivity is founded, I would argue, on a legitimate religious concern, I think this has to be respected. Archive 2006-09-01
Any use of military force that aims at conquest of territory, alteration of borders, interference on one side or the other of a civil war is illegitimate.
The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.
By hijacking the legitimate connection to a traditional wired computer network, hackers might be able to exploit the soft underbelly of corporate networks and launch even more invasive attacks.
The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
The campaign against Kiaochow was unpopular from the outset among the Japanese public because it was felt that they were not legitimately called upon to interest themselves in such a remote question as the balance of power among European nations, which was what British warfare against Germany seemed to them to be. The Fight for the Republic in China
In this real world context, the main role that the RAP has to play is to generate drafting errors that can be used to defeat a legitimate intent of the settlor. The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Teach Law Students the Rule Against Perpetuities?
BP has repeatedly promised to pay all "legitimate claims" for loss and damage as a result of the Gulf oil spill, now vying for the title fourth biggest oil spill in history at 2.3 million barrels of crude over the past two months. Libertarian Blog Place
We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
But nimbyism cannot always prevail over the legitimate pleas of striving families for homes they can afford. Times, Sunday Times
Those who (defensibly) viewed Clinton as disgracing his office could have no legitimate objection to Gore's becoming President in his stead. Balkinization
Gedes thinks that an attempt was made to restore the legitimate line.
We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
Moreover, virtually every target of the film is legitimate and deserving of scorn and derision.
Furthermore, he had the brains and the strength of character to graduate from rebel leader to legitimate president.
We aim to confront the legitimate fears and aspirations of both communities.
It is legitimate to fear that any grass belonging to vetiver's subtribe could become a weed. 4 Questions and Answers
Again, he vows to do penance by marrying Elizabeth and accepting her illegitimate son.
I am the timekeeper, which is to say my clock is the legitimate clock for this auction. “The Last Colony” Auction: To Benefit the John M Ford Book Endowment « Whatever
The Home Office had no ulterior purpose in that case: it was solely motivated by an entirely legitimate concern to enforce proper immigration controls.
Certainly bad loans at Chinese banks and massive off-balance sheet debt in the financial sector are legitimate worries.
Two men arrived at the compound with authority from the owner to obtain the twin turbo four-wheel drive hot hatch, which was legitimately released to them.
Even a technically legitimate ruler forfeits his right to obedience if his mandates do not correspond to moral norms.
Informal labour relations tend to be more exploitative than those within the legitimate economy.
It aims to block domestic usurpers or foreign aggressors from establishing illegitimate rule over the attacked society.
The first of these follows the effect of high tax rates on the incentive to generate taxable income or to shelter income by legitimate means - tax avoidance.
When you start noticing the leaves changing color, or find yourself decorating a Christmas tree or spinning a dreidl, then you can legitimately start worrying if you have waited too long. Author! Author! » 2006 » July
It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
Instead, given new life, the Jaguars took full advantage and won the game, leaving the Colts at 2-2 and second-guessers with a legitimate beef about Caldwell's dumbfounding, Jim Zorn-like clock management decision. Know when to fold 'em
•local content requirements (say, 30-50% of the investment) are legal, and legitimate, and can help build up the local infrastructure and industry; ColoradoPols.com - Front Page
A year after their marriage she produced his only legitimate child, a daughter whom they christened Jennifer.
A third conceptual account of authority or set of conceptions of legitimate authority involves the idea that the authority has a right to rule.
That's a perfectly legitimate question.
The army must give power back to the legitimate government.
Though such estimates may be of value for research or policy purposes, using them to scare the public cannot be considered legitimate.
The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism.
Preaching to the choir is a legitimate enterprise. Apologetics
Since 471 deer were killed in reported crashes over the last three years, if the county goes signless that long, there will be some legitimate basis for comparison. The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
In plain English, clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site.
In other words, the ROC is not the legitimate government of Taiwan.
In plain English, clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. Techworld Australia News
For narratology, legitimate signals must have been authorized as such, demonstrably asserted by the text either in explicit statement or through conventional signs like quotation marks.
One should be careful in choosing a dietitian , because not all of them are legitimate.
Transgender rage is the subjective experience of being compelled to transgress what Judith Butler has referred to as the highly gendered regulatory schemata that determine the viability of bodies, of being compelled to enter a “domain of abjected bodies, a field of deformation” that in its unlivability encompasses and constitutes the realm of legitimate subjectivity. Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
Ideologically, the Clinton administration was committed to the idea that most terrorists were misunderstood, had legitimate grievances, and could be appeased, which is why such military action as the administration authorized was so halfhearted, and ineffective, and designed more for 'show' than for honestly eliminating a threat. Archive 2008-08-01
When you permit these legitimate concerns to spill over into your work performance, your career often suffers.
He claimed that the restaurant bill was a legitimate business expense.
It becomes legitimate for those in power in the business world to act unethically. Times, Sunday Times
It may be advisable to pre-establish a legitimate (preferably UN-mandated) legal framework for vetting pre-hostility exploration agreements.
Or should they legitimately be applied only to continuous curves susceptible of being expressed by algebraic or transcendental equations?
Google also found that legitimate antivirus vendors were having more trouble identifying the fake programs due to an increased level of "polymorphism," a technique used to make an application look unique and evade malware scanners. ARN News
Sexual harassment in the workplace is an illegitimate exercise of power.
ECLECTICISM : Nor can we find any willingness to make common cause with false religiosity as long as Christianity is accepted as one among many legitimate viewpoints.
To its supporters, who include among others the British Government, which has signed a potentially lucrative contract with Odyssey to salvage a 17th century navy ship called HMS Sussex carrying bullion worth up to £500m, the Nasdaq-listed company, founded by a former advertising executive and a real estate magnate, is a reputable organisation that follows strict archaeological guidelines in its legitimate search for sunken vessels. A £200m treasure hunt. Has Odyssey Marine found ‘La Vierge’? : Coin Collecting News
Political philosophers from Plato to Hobbes saw society organized primarily through what might be called legitimated threat. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Click fraud is the practice of adulterating pay-per-click advertising statistics by generating illegitimate hits.
an illegitimate seizure of power
The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas.
The claims of seemingly legitimate analysts posting commentary online could not be ignored.
After a childhood spent "surveiling" the protected "legitimate" family, a term proud Gwen hates, rebellious teenaged Dana inserts herself into her half-sister's life, with tragic results. StarTribune.com rss feed
It's an old habit of his, using people's legitimate feelings of outrage ... for ends that are clearly electoral and demagogical, Nicolas Leger, national secretary of the USM magistrates union, told The Associated Press. French judges revolt, shut down courthouses
The region of storyland is the legitimate stage for children. The Art of the Story-Teller
Even if that was legitimate (which it clearly isn't), Iain Gray and Anne Moffat are claiming almost £16,000 a year when the rateable value (what they should be claiming) is just £5,300. Archive 2009-05-01
The video shows what the U.S. Military calls a legitimate strike against hostile forces.
The state was reunified and a legitimate democratic government in power.
Advocates say voodoo is a legitimate African-based religion that has been unfairly maligned in movies and popular culture.
The term often used in terms of expenses is 'legitimate business expense' - if our employers (or HMRC for the self-employed) don't think a business expense is legitimate, then it doesn't get paid. MP Expenses - They Work For YOU
And since when does having a democracy excuse any country from legitimate, reasoned criticism?
He claimed that the restaurant bill was a legitimate business expense.
Answering the question suggests that its construct is legitimate, that a candidate's patriotism is subject to qualification, gradation, and comparison.
The forex transferred into the enterprises may be used to repay capital with interest, buy equipment and raw materials, remit profits out of the country and pay the legitimate income of foreign staff.
Let's talk about where you draw the line between legitimate civil disobedience, and what constitutes damage to lawful, economical commercial activity.
This new dispensation in turn required the expansion of the political nation to create a legitimate match of taxation and representation.
Three times married, he had five legitimate children by his first wife.
Nevertheless, although generalizations arrived at by legitimate inductions can not be guaranteed to be perfectly true, they are probably true.
China is ruled by an illegitimate communist oligarchy which wants to develop the country commercially while maintaining political control.
Such disclosure was pursuing a legitimate investigative purpose, but restrictions were placed on the authority's right to use the information to ensure that it was used only for the purposes specified.
Insofar as they do not attend to the perversions of freedom and the flesh that cruelty exploits, they fail to offer a legitimate understanding of our intersubjective lives.
Their authority is fundamentally illegitimate to begin with, meaning defiance carries no moral ambiguity, even if the physical consequences for the defier are deadly.
Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
It discusses the theory advanced by John Rawls that authority is legitimate if and only if it acts in accord with principles the subjects agree to.

How To Use Legitimate In A Sentence

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