Sentence examples for contested legitimacy from inspiring English sources
It was through the daily actions of petty officials that signori could establish and maintain their contested legitimacy.
Boniface, nevertheless, appears to have had good reason to hope for a favourable termination of the conflict, because Philip's army was shortly afterward disastrously defeated by a league of Flemish townspeople and because the German king and prospective emperor, Albert I of Habsburg, was ready to give up his French alliance if the Pope would recognize the contested legitimacy of his rule.
The posthumous son of Louis II the Stammerer by a marriage of contested legitimacy, Charles was passed over for the throne on the death of his half-brother, Carloman, in 884 or that of his cousin, Charles the Fat, in 888.
Don Pierson contested the legitimacy of these decisions, but his attempts to involve the United States government did not resolve the dispute in his favor.
In three notable cases, the court ruled 9-0 againsthehe Obama administration.In National Labour Relations Board v Noel Canning, for example, a Pepsi bottler contested the legitimacy of an NLRB ruling against it.
Paolo Sarpi, the energetic defender of Doge Leonardo Doná's policy, which had provoked the Roman Curia, never contested the legitimacy of papal power, but in the temporal sphere he denied that it carried any prerogatives superior to the sovereign rights of the state.
As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers.
Having personally signed the document banning opposition parties, he was expelled from the PNL in April 1938, and contested the legitimacy of the action for the following years.
The development of common norms, agreed definitions, clear boundaries and cognitive legitimacy are contested processes.
Venezuela is a difficult case because Mr. Maduro's legitimacy is contested within his country.
"It would be a disaster to have an election whose legitimacy was contested," said Noah Feldman, an assistant professor of law at New York University, who was a constitutional law adviser to Mr. Bremer earlier this year.
