Sentence examples for assert legitimacy from inspiring English sources
In the struggle to assert legitimacy, both Isis and Assad single out the councils for attack.
The Miskito protested to press their claims, putting pressure on the government of President Porfirio Lobo, who struggled to assert legitimacy after he was elected following a 2009 coup.
When gun-rights advocates assert the legitimacy of self-defense, gun-control advocates champion the police.
The party has always sought to assert its legitimacy by representing itself as a bulwark against Japanese hegemony.
But since 2008, it's been increasingly tough for financiers to assert their legitimacy as political decision-makers.
Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians, however, have established their own autocephalous Orthodox churches in an effort to assert the legitimacy of their national identities.
Hien Vuong launched campaigns in 1655 61 designed to defeat the Trinh rulers in northern Vietnam and to assert the legitimacy of his own rule in the south.
Their response until now has been largely to assert the legitimacy of the vast body of climate science and to mock their critics as cranks and know-nothings.
First, we need to assert the legitimacy of the asylum claims, based on the routes taken, the countries fled, the extent of the conflicts that we all know.
Several out-of-state couples have said they would be willing to be part of lawsuit, if necessary, to assert the legitimacy of their Massachusetts marriage licenses.
