Sentence examples for basic legitimacy from inspiring English sources

These news outlets do not challenge the basic legitimacy of Communist rule, but have raised their standards for evaluating news according to journalistic significance rather than party interests.

"We disagree with the Tories' assertion that a small turnout in strike-action ballots undermines the basic legitimacy of the strike," he said.

In the early '80s, an energy consultant forecast — in this magazine — a "high probability" of an oil shock in which "the basic legitimacy of our political system might be called into question".

She went on, "The peril goes far beyond the scope of traditional ethics — inviting waste, fraud, and abuse — and represents a profound threat not only to our national security but to the basic legitimacy of our government".

The problem is that when you reject the basic legitimacy of government statistics (as opposed to questioning their methodology), you run the risk of entering a fun-house world.

Makau Mutua, a Kenyan-American professor at the State University of New York, said: "Bottom line is that the Americans have caved in to Kenyatta and now appear to condone the impunity of a regime that lacks basic legitimacy, is drowning in corruption and is suffocating civil society".

But the success of the divestment strategy depends on the depletion of something else: the social brand of fossil fuel companies and their basic political legitimacy.

The second approach takes features of individuals their interests or their rights—as basic for legitimacy.

They saw a vote that lacked even the basic ­elements of legitimacy.

That seems to me a basic requirement of legitimacy of institutions, and I'm inclined to say that's universal.

In the faith that Jesus practiced, there was one basic mark of legitimacy: circumcision.