The phrase "as less legitimate" is not correct in written English.
It is typically used incorrectly because "less" is not used with "legitimate" in this context; "less" should be replaced with "lesser" or "not as legitimate."
Example: "Some critics argue that this new policy is seen as less legitimate than the previous one."
Alternatives: "not as legitimate" or "lesser in legitimacy."
The elite private colleges, which enjoy not only greater resources but also more discretion, do give more weight to subjective judgments of students' potential (as well as less legitimate factors, such as their family's wealth).
In fact, research shows that once in a leadership role, female power-holders are seen as less legitimate than male power-holders.
If, as a result, the public then views the Supreme Court as less legitimate, well, who cares what the public thinks?
And some of the resistance I feel about announcing to the world at large that Flick and I are non-monogamous is that I know there are many people who would view our marriage as less legitimate than a monogamous one.
And while acknowledging that he must continue to combat the persistent bias against crafts as a less legitimate art form, Dr. Adamson said this "habit of looking down on craft people" is already changing.
That doesn't mean that it's more or less legitimate as an art form or as a worldview than anyone else's.
But Geoff Miller, England's national selector, told a media conference in the Long Room at Lord's that the foreign legion are no less legitimate as representatives of English cricket than homegrown players.
He became reconciled to Napoleon's rule, regarding it as a more or less legitimate successor to the Holy Roman Empire, and, in the relatively peaceful interval after the Austrian war against France in 1809, a new serenity entered his writing.
Mr. Luhrmann's use of culturally degraded forms both here and in earlier films like "Moulin Rouge" doesn't register as either a conceptual strategy or a cynical commercial ploy or some combination of the two, as it can with art world jesters like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, who have appropriated kitsch as a (more or less) legitimate postmodern strategy.
"There's an expectation that I should be ok with others slipping up, but if I do, then it feels as though my name is less legitimate," says Ray.
If Mr. Maduro cannot represent himself as legitimate abroad, then he will look less legitimate at home, which invites citizens and political officials to reject him as well.
