Sentence examples for a legitimate operation from inspiring English sources

How can I tell if it is a legitimate operation or a "diploma mill"?

If he had been running a legitimate operation, that would have made earning good returns for other investors even harder.

But western experts question why a legitimate operation would need to be concealed in a facility in a clandestine, underground site.

They can also (but do not have to) have a secretary who, in a legitimate operation, takes on much of a director's work.

For the first time, that complaint suggested that Mr. Madoff may have started his money-management business as a legitimate operation, investing money mostly for friends and family using arbitrage and stock-picking strategies.

Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme had the appearance of being a legitimate operation.

It's clear he and his own sons have helped turn Bronner's soap-making business into a well-organized, legitimate operation that has somehow managed to retain its social and ecological credibility in an increasingly scumbaggish corporate world.

So is Herbalife a legitimate sales operation selling to outsiders?

He was the subject of a legitimate military operation with the aim of killing an enemy.

He was abducted from there by means that are more reminiscent of Mafia tactics than of a legitimate international operation".

You'll have to order at the bar, but don't let that deter you: this is a legitimate kitchen operation.