Use "legitimacy" in a sentence

1. She told them about the political situation, how the Warlord of Pennsylvania had moved his forces all the way to the Potomac as soon as the Nigerians went home, using the judges and their constables and a tenuous membership in the Commonwealth of Laurentia as a facade of legitimacy

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2. If one is of the impression that he is alone in his universe and that all other creations are only accessories to allow him to carry on his life, why would he care about honesty, legitimacy, faithfulness and other such noble sentiments?

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3. We have reached a stage in our ―evolution‖ where, as a society, we are no longer willing or able to (either) appreciate or acknowledge the legitimacy of anything or any idea extending beyond our own immediate interests thereby engendering a Ptolemaic mindset where Man has become the center of his own universe

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4. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods

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5. Timid and/or expedient politicians pandering to off the wall, lunatic fringe groups, whose members should have their collective heads examined, have lent legitimacy to peevish, ill-tempered designs in exchange for political party loyalty

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6. When the Rule of Law is uneven; that is to say, arbitrarily applied, its inconsistencies or lack of uniformity must necessarily call its legitimacy into question

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7. and the legitimacy of rendered opinions (morally) non-binding to the sensibilities of affected establishments

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8. Christ‘s principled teachings are oftentimes questioned by Secularists, Atheists and (nominal) ―Christians‖ alike who routinely disclaim their authenticity by either challenging scriptural interpretations or biblical precedence(s) mentioned in His teachings; that is to say, questioning whether or not Christ specifically said this or said that or whether His (contemporary) followers/biographers simply put words in His mouth in order to lend legitimacy to an incipient religious movement inasmuch as Christ, Himself, never 122

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9. ‖ It provides the framework that governs our motives, informs our decisions and provides legitimacy to our beliefs

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10. The evolution of uniform military standards, however, subsequently rendered militias, in the traditional sense, obsolete until the events of 9/11 raised important questions about our nation‘s seemingly impregnable borders that have subsequently lent legitimacy to the efforts of ―Minutemen‖ who routinely patrol our porous Southwestern borders with this one notable exception: most are likely to employ binoculars rather than muskets

11. On a more radical plane, however, members of the Nation of Islam seem united in large measure by a common hatred of American (―White‖) Institutions with ―religion‖ merely serving as a convenient prop that seeks to lend legitimacy to a separatist/nationalist agenda

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12. Jury Nullification, precipitated by perceived historical injustices, rejects or makes void rules or articles of evidence and their proper application as instructed by law because of pre-conceived biases unwilling to concede the legitimacy of such statutes or official practices of the court

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13. The political opponents of the present administration might choose to carefully weigh the (uncertain) consequences that are (certain) to arise by lending legitimacy to world leaders whose questionable character and destabilizing military designs should provide thoughtful pause

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14. Of course, I do not refer here to the editorials, which in any democracy enjoy a degree of legitimacy and demand respect

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15. The South Vietnamese government had little support or legitimacy with its population

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16. That was hidden behind a screen of legitimacy to the highest levels in the governments of Costa Rica, Panama and Columbia

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17. Was the “new name” that of the highest Christian leader, the bishop of Rome, which seemed to mysteriously morph into the title of “pope”? And might the “white stone” be metaphorically the headpiece and vestments put upon the newly anointed as he ascended to the highest office in the Catholic (universal) hierarchy, in the name of Jesus? And regarding the “new name that no one knows,” does this explain the many challenges to the later addition of and legitimacy of the “Office of the Papacy

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18. And with those originals would have Muawiyah’s usurpation have been revealed as without legitimacy? Then, following the suspicious death of Ali, he took the caliphate for himself in AD 661, just five years short of the date that I seek

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19. His and his new partner’s first act in AD 313 was to grant the mightily struggling Christian sect legitimacy in all of the Roman territories and to return previously confiscated property to them

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20. Simply isolated attacks, individually, would have been tragic, but several incidents only add to the chaos and the legitimacy of the story of terror and terrorists, and fundamentalist ideals as the core reason for the attacks taking place

21. “The continuity of the regime is more important to you than its, shall we say, legitimacy?”

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22. Liberal whites earn their badge of moral legitimacy by accepting this hidden guilt and acceding to demands for amelioration, however false or mendacious the guilt or the demands

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23. The legitimacy of the American Constitution is based squarely on the consent of the people whom it is to govern

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24. Amazingly, to coat this screw job with a very thin patina of legitimacy despite his having already having his mind made up for him by Assistant SecNav MacDonald, Macmillan—out of the blue—called both me and Pressly at the shipyard and demanded that we meet him, separately, the following day at the Mobile airport to interview for the SupShip Counsel’s job which I presently, but not for long, held

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25. gained some legitimacy as a would-be successor to Hyrcanus II

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26. and at some point during all of that began to question the legitimacy

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27. The animal protection associations legally constituted have legitimacy to require

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28. I'm not a banker myself, of course, but I have always assumed you fellows had mysterious and occult ways of determining the legitimacy of financial instruments

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29. But must we give this deprivation a total legitimacy? By

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30. Details of the father were added to the records for registration, and the new parents were encouraged to spend some time in the clinic both before and after the 'birth' so as to give the scheme the veneer of legitimacy

31. Whatever veneer of respectable legitimacy there was on the main street in Gulagh was lost the further one got from it

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32. The legitimacy of the Raj was never re-established for the majority of Indians and an ever increasing number of British subjects

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33. determination as to the legitimacy of the answer

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34. Moreover, in order to accord legitimacy to the receivables and the dispatches, he obtained, again from Palit’s office, a marine cover for those fictitious transactions

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35. depth in theory, along with professional legitimacy

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36. legitimacy of the activity, not an end in themselves

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37. The way Betty‘s car was parked was blocking one of the main dirt roads the ambulance could use to get to the injured guest, so my indignation at her refusal to move it suddenly gained legitimacy

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38. The expression actually questions the legitimacy of those who were born after the encounters in these hammocks

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39. this staff would prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the legitimacy there

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40. authoritarian and brutal, have no legitimacy because for the

41. Under-neath it all, Aureliano Segundo did not believe in the legitimacy of the proof

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42. Nancy was careful to film that part, along with anything else that would support the legitimacy and authenticity of her future report about this visit

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43. “If the current situation persists, we will continue fighting one form of Iraqi insurgency after another – with too little legitimacy, too little will and too few resources

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44. Relying on a genealogy that someone else began can have legitimacy concerns, but laying the groundwork without it is more of a challenge

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45. ����������� ��Secretary Hull, I believe that this only reinforces the legitimacy of our present policies towards Japan

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46. any fears they may have concerning your legitimacy

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47. stands to give reinforcement of that illuminating legitimacy

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48. In return you will get income beyond your wildest dreams and complete legitimacy

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49. discount model to evaluate stocks because the models do indeed have legitimacy when the

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50. exotic derivatives have gained legitimacy because their proper use offers risk reduction and

51. investor’s attempt to capitalize on a bull market, what it lacks in scientific legitimacy, it makes up in timely effectiveness

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52. focus to be of interest to the layperson, far reaching, but technically incorrect studies can propose hypotheses that may have later legitimacy

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53. often lose legitimacy when repeatedly tested against reality

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54. An enraged Li, resolved not to let the Spacers League gain some legitimacy through that referendum, then decided to act without delay, just as the various news medias competed to describe the situation in wild hyperboles

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55. been debating the legitimacy or non-legitimacy of such actions since

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56. This had no special effect as far as the validity or the legitimacy of

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57. watching Star Trek your life starts to have some legitimacy

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58. Pierre was not about to part with all of it, but at least if he was caught out, he could claim some legitimacy by having found a living relative of Ronald Twyman

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59. The Regency Council, under the late King's brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, concluded that this was a case of bigamy (!), and made invalid the marriage to Elizabeth and subsequently, the legitimacy of all children of it

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60. “Successful arrest and conviction must operate as a deterrent and the State should, within the limits of its undoubtedly constrained resources, seek to deter serious crime by adequate remuneration for the police force; by incentives to improve their training and skill; by augmenting their numbers in key areas; and by facilitating their legitimacy in the perception of the communities in which they work”28

61. Even if a contrary injunction is to be found elsewhere in the text, anti- Semitism is also there, and is expressed with an equal sense of legitimacy

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62. Darwin killed God by a book but Mohammad made death a legitimacy to seal doubts and deceptions

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63. Every website its google legitimacy –

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64. So they specified that if she behaved in any way that cast doubt on the legitimacy of her child then the child would be denied the right to inherit

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65. How can you say such a thing? Our entire case rests upon William's unquestionable legitimacy

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66. In America, leaders of big organizations have lost their legitimacy and credibility

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67. The legitimacy of her argument rings true inside me

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68. This had no special effect as far as the validity or the legitimacy of the races that were going to be won at the track on this very day

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69. that so fiercely protect the honour and legitimacy of physics as a whole that is in a hole of deception

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70. of this formula having any legitimacy whatsoever science continues to use this formula when explaining

71. are of the opinion that : “The author has no legitimacy in disputing physics: he is merely an amateur trying

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72. It was all a matter of inventing the proper officialdom, the appearance of authority; the appearance of legitimacy

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73. my indignation at her refusal to move it suddenly gained legitimacy

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74. For instance, Grant Jeffrey tries to prove the legitimacy of every word the Bible as being that written and inspired by God, in his book The Signature of God

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75. Jesus’ family questioned the legitimacy of His work being that of a Messiah, as He did not outwardly portray the behaviour and characteristics of a King, a messiah who could save the world, and as the oldest son He was not readily available to help support the family which was the custom at that time

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76. We can also explore the legitimacy of Jesus of Nazareth being the Son of God by looking at the gospels from another perspective, by placing our minds inside the minds of the New Testament writers, the witnesses and disciples of Jesus Christ as authors of the New Testament

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77. prove the truth of reincarnation and expose Christianity’s primary claims to legitimacy as blatant lies

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78. I do not question the legitimacy of your plan, as crazy as it may be

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79. I am not stupid, I know a part of whatever he is saying is a lie or he is altering the legitimacy

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80. Heinrich smiled and shrugged, “I have to admit the legitimacy of that point I suppose

81. Now though, in the second wave, with the pie carved up and dished out, the gangsters had traded their guns for ties, the legitimacy of the court upstaging the language of the street

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82. Due to the anonymity of the Internet, one could not be certain of the legitimacy of the data that had been searched and matched to the entered requirements

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83. marriage or the legitimacy of your child?"

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84. "'After all, the Democratic aspirations have, perhaps, their legitimacy

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85. She thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell, as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of legitimacy; saw the arch-fiend tossing it with his three-pronged fork, like the one they used for heating the oven on baking days; to which picture she added many other quaint and curious details of torment sometimes taught the young in this Christian country

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86. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron

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87. These theorists, who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about shouting,

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88. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc

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89. Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day finds himself in the greatest missery

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90. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood

91. Tell these men that the question is only in the personal relation of every man to the moral, religious question, now standing before all, of the legitimacy and illegitimacy of his participation in the universal military service, and these savants will only shrug their shoulders, and will not even deign to give you an answer, or pay attention to you

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92. The Tula train and the behavior of the persons composing it—How men can behave as these do—The reasons are neither ignorance, nor cruelty, nor cowardice, nor lack of comprehension or of moral sense—They do these things because they think them necessary to maintain the existing system, to support which they believe to be every man's duty—On what the belief of the necessity and immutability of the existing order of things is founded—For the upper classes it is based on the advantages it affords them—But what compels men of the lower classes to believe in the immutability of this system, when they derive no advantage from it, and maintain it with acts contrary to their conscience?—The reason lies in the deceit practised by the upper classes upon the lower in regard to the necessity of the existing order, and the legitimacy of acts of violence for its maintenance—General deception—Special deception—The conscription

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93. How men reconcile the legitimacy of murder with the precepts of morality, and how they admit the existence in their midst of a military organization for purposes of violence which incessantly threatens the safety of society—Admitted only by the powers for whom the present organization is advantageous—Violence sanctioned by the higher authorities and carried out by the lower, notwithstanding the knowledge of its immorality, because, owing to the organization of the State, the moral responsibility is divided among a large number of participants, each of whom considers some other than himself responsible—Moreover, the loss of consciousness of moral responsibility is also due to a mistaken opinion as to the inequality of men, the consequent abuse of power by the authorities, and servility of the lower classes—The condition of men who commit acts contrary to their conscience is like the condition of a hypnotized person acting under the influence of suggestion—In what does submission to the suggestion of the State differ from submission to men of a higher order of consciousness or to public opinion?—The present system, which is the outcome of ancient public opinion, and which is already in contradiction to the modern, is maintained only through torpor of conscience, induced by auto-suggestion among the upper classes, and by the hypnotization of the lower—The conscience or intelligent consciousness of these men may awaken, and there are instances when it does awaken; therefore it cannot be said that any one of them will, or will not, do what he sets out to do—Everything depends on the degree of comprehension of the illegitimacy of the acts of violence, and this consciousness in men may either awaken spontaneously or be roused by those already awakened

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94. The greatest manifestation of this contradiction consists in the fact that every citizen in being made a soldier becomes a prop of the government organization, and shares the responsibility of everything the government does, even though he may not admit its legitimacy

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95. And, indeed, what sort of ethical doctrine could admit the legitimacy of murder for any object whatever? It is as impossible as a theory of mathematics admitting that two is equal to three

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