Sentence examples for a legitimate origin from inspiring English sources

If the official could not prove a legitimate origin of his or her Swiss assets, they would be confiscated by the Swiss state.

While French-Thai cuisine has a legitimate origin in the French colonization of Indochina and the Francophile attitudes adapted by the kings of Siam, the food that Jean-Georges Vongerichten is turning out at Vong is all his own.

Under the agreement, all rough diamonds that cross the member nations' borders must have certificates of legitimate origin and must be bound to or from another member nation.

Update: ok apparently it's a legitimate trending topic (see origin here, it was meant as a tribute to British comic actress Mollie Sugden on the occasion of her death, so fans, celebrities and Brits in general started to tweet it) but Twitter is just blocking search results from appearing (which is good).

Money laundering was long understood to mean investing proceeds in a legitimate enterprise, so their origins would be obscured and the money would appear to be clean when recovered.

(Merman and Borgnine were very briefly married, so actually he would have been a legitimate son.) That's the origin of Varla Jean Merman's name.

The study of the origin of life is a legitimate scientific question and an alluring intellectual endeavor.

"Mr Darwin's remarkable speculation on the origin of species is another unimpeachable example of a legitimate hypothesis... he has opened up a path of inquiry full of promise, the results of which none can foresee".

A legitimate question.

That's a legitimate point.

It is a legitimate question.