Sentence examples for a legitimate aim from inspiring English sources

That is certainly a legitimate aim -- indeed a necessary aim of any alliance against terrorism.

"The wish to appeal to a prime-time audience, including younger viewers, is a legitimate aim.

"The wish to appeal to a primetime audience, including younger viewers, is a legitimate aim.

The principles to which governments should adhere when conducting communications surveillance include having a legitimate aim, proportionality and user notification.

But this argument only works if conscription is a legitimate aim of government, and Schenck's pamphlet denied this.

Such interferences can only be accepted if they are strictly necessary and proportionate to a legitimate aim".

In that case, the European Court of Human Rights stated that the preservation of an idea of "living together" was an "legitimate aim" of the French government. .

The SNP, like every other political party, is by no means perfect, but it has a perfectly legitimate aim, that of an independent Scotland.

But the just war tradition has employed this idea in a way that makes it permissible to kill innocent third parties (i.e., noncombatants) in war, so long as the primary intention is to accomplish a legitimate war aim and so long as the killing of innocents is merely a foreseen but unintended secondary effect.

"The tribunal is satisfied that the respondent had the legitimate aim of attracting a wider audience to horse racing".

"In my view, on any compassionate consideration, the extreme stress caused to a 90-year-old man from leaving the country to re-apply, not knowing if he would see his wife again, is a disproportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of immigration control.