Sentence examples for considered it legitimate from inspiring English sources

Luis Figo crossed and Ronaldo received some very close attention from Willy Sagnol, whose arm was raised as he challenged, but the referee Jorge Larrionda considered it legitimate marking.

He rejected use of violence in Egypt, even though he considered it legitimate in Palestine, in resistance to the Zionist Stern and Irgun terror gangs.

Not for a moment would America's founders have considered it legitimate for the people's representatives to put making the president fail, in order to gain partisan advantage, ahead of doing the people's business.

Energy balance may be as (or even more) important than diet composition in promoting hyperlipidemia and IR, but whether diets high in sugar always result in higher energy intakes compared with diets high in starch or fat is not established; thus we have considered it legitimate to discuss ad libitum studies, with caveats.

"Large parts of the world will not consider it legitimate," he says.

Similar to soft paternalism, weak paternalism would consider it legitimate to use coercive means to achieve a person's desired consequence, such as requiring seat belts in the assumption that people desire life and health and therefore should be forced to take measures to protect themselves.

Informants may not describe their actions correctly, either because they are unaware of or do not remember their own pattern of actual choices or because they do not wish to reveal them [ 51] and according to Fernadez et al. [ 52] GPs consider it legitimate to be influenced by professional standards while to be influenced by financial incentives is not considered legitimate.

Indeed, if her physician or a family member had said "do everything," meaning keep her alive as long as possible through intravenous medications and hydration and, ultimately, sending her to the intensive care unit on a ventilator, it would have cost thousands of dollars but, paradoxically, most insurance companies would have considered it a legitimate care option.

Although the general faculty and the educators of prospective teachers had a clearer understanding of ID than the students (Gen Fac and Edu were statistically similar; Fig. 2), it is of concern that one in ten general faculty, one in five educators of prospective teachers, and one in two students were unaware of the nature of ID or considered it a legitimate scientific proposal.

Before the race, we had talked plenty of times about the idea of running Boston, but we never had considered it a legitimate possibility.

There was absolutely no feeling in the matter as far as we were concerned, for we considered it quite a legitimate part of the game".