Sentence examples for Recognized as legitimate from inspiring English sources

Such governmental purposes long have been recognized as legitimate.

There was no method of succession ultimately recognized as legitimate, no tradition of loyal opposition.

Diversity within national society is also recognized as legitimate and central.

If Mr. Micheletti and his backers expect the next Honduran government to be recognized as legitimate by the international community, it must restore Mr. Zelaya to office now.

That means no sex outside marriage, and in Mormon doctrine, same-sex marriage is not recognized as legitimate — even in states where it is legal.

In any given era, those who minister to the mentally ill — doctors or shamans or priests — inadvertently help to select which symptoms will be recognized as legitimate.

This liberal-democratic order is the only one we in the West recognize as legitimate today, and we owe it primarily to Hobbes.

What is more, it must recognize as legitimate the ius ad bellum claimed by all groups that have successfully constituted themselves as political communities.

The 'liberal position' he suggests demands of the State that it should recognize as legitimate only the two grounds for coercion just mentioned.

The greater part of their populations would not recognize as legitimate or democratic a political entity, even a confederation, whose center remained Moscow.

Here, Changeux approvingly quotes Joëlle Proust: "A philosophical theory is naturalistic when it recognizes as legitimate only those objective undertakings and explanatory principles normally recognized and adopted in the natural sciences" (p. 135).