Sentence examples for absolute legitimacy from inspiring English sources

Mugabe was the leader of that struggle, and he evidently believed that this status gave him absolute legitimacy to enjoy absolute power forever.

Virtually no single political institution, party, organization, group, or movement possesses a reservoir of absolute legitimacy in the current maelstrom.

"I am conscious of the warnings that weigh upon him, but I am also conscious of his absolute legitimacy to be candidate".

"With a view to providing a greater period of time so that a greater number of train manufacturers take part, and to ensure the absolute clarity, legitimacy and transparency, the federal government decided to convoke a new bidding process," the communications and transport agency's press release on the decision said.

He has always clung to the absolute authority of "legitimacy" because he's certain he has it this is widely disputed.

He has always clung to the absolute authority of "legitimacy" because he's certain he has it – this is widely disputed.

But Simon A. Cole, a science historian and the author of a forthcoming book on fingerprinting, said print examiners undermined their legitimacy by claiming absolute certainty, which the International Association of Identification's bylaws require.

CAIRO — Elections across this region have long been viewed as not much more than window dressing to tidy up the image of authoritarian leaders and absolute monarchs eager for greater legitimacy.

"WARF has absolute confidence in the appropriateness and legitimacy of these patents," Carl E. Gulbrandsen, the managing director of the Wisconsin foundation, said yesterday in a statement.

Spain's new foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, said in an interview with the Financial Times that the United Nations must be given "absolute responsibility" for Iraq to restore the legitimacy of the foreign intervention among Iraqis.

Even mere speculation diminishes and undermines the legitimacy of the royal family as absolute stewards of Mecca and Medina and ultimate arbiters of oil prices in the almighty OPEC.