Sentence examples for contested the legitimacy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Part of the problem for places such as Bermuda is we never contested the notion of being an "off-shore" jurisdiction and were thus rendered peripheral and of questionable legitimacy in the eyes of many.

Borghese Inc. contested the trademark.

The bank contested the accusations.

It bitterly contested the Iraq war.

The MDC contested the elections anyway.

Wagstaffs sister Judith contested the will.

Of those who contested the vote?