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Which then means other religions can legitimately press the ruling elite for their bit of power, their strand of hair.
Clegg said: "A party legitimately cannot govern a whole nation – the UK – if they want to break that nation apart.
Reflecting on the reasons for David Miliband's defeat in the leadership election, Mandelson frankly admits that New Labour was "too overbearing towards those who wanted quite legitimately to question or debate issues of policy, and they were pushed partly as a result into the arms of those who wanted to strangle New Labour at birth".
In a written judgement, Judge Robin Challender Smith and two tribunal members decided the circumstances of their cases placed the councillors in a position where they "could significantly and legitimately have expected not to be named... "Releasing the information could potentially cause unnecessary and unjustified damage and distress to the individuals".
"This all started out as a joke but now i think i legitimately fancy ed miliband," one teenager confessed.
They say many ordinary people are legitimately angry with world leaders over the financial crisis, and should be entitled to express this anger.
From Pliny the Younger's story of an old man in chains haunting his house, through the stories of the Dybbuk, to the great gothic storytellers and the Blair Witch Project, in all cultures and times there is something here that won't go away; some fear that is legitimately being expressed – the continual return of the repressed.
As the first SDP MP to risk supporting a merger with the Liberals, he can legitimately claim to be one of the founding fathers of the Liberal Democrats, a sometimes uneasy political alliance between two traditions in which he always stood on the social democratic wing.
Which of course they did – but "legitimately ", as Scargill remarked recently, by bringing about a general election – as took place in the wake of the successful coal strike of 1974.
Wednesday's victory feels similarly significant, less the kind of thing to be enjoyed in the moment, like the Ashes triumph, and more a platform from which expectations can be legitimately hoisted towards the sky.
Since then, Germany has established an expert panel to review the art works and determine which of them might be legitimately claimed by former owners or their heirs.
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The adverb "legitimately " modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to indicate that an action, state, or quality is performed or exists in a manner that is lawful, proper, or justifiable. Ludwig examples showcase its use across various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
