Sentence examples for essential legitimacy from inspiring English sources

It represented something entirely different and troubling: the denial, on the part of one-half of the country, of the essential legitimacy of the other half to hold power, even if it does so with a clear majority.

Merely acknowledging that some corporate chief executives might be overpaid and some working-class voters might be struggling was enough to get him dismissed by George Will as a "radical" who had supposedly repudiated "free trade, low taxes, the essential legitimacy of America's corporate entities and the market system allocating wealth and opportunity".

In part this is because an unqualifiedly heroic version of the war is essential to the legitimacy of the Communist Party.

The Pentagon has favored a minimal role for the United Nations, but the State Department argues that its role is essential to lending legitimacy to a postwar Iraqi government.

As the diplomat put it, Mr. Brahimi had not yet figured out how to accommodate Shiite interests close to Ayatollah Sistani, which is considered essential to maintaining legitimacy, without angering restive Sunni.

Pentagon and CENTCOM officials, however, questioned whether Musharraf retained the political legitimacy essential for success in the counterinsurgency campaign that they now believed would last for five or more years.

She called on the Senate, in words that will now haunt her, to embrace "the essential rightness — the legitimacy and the desirability — of exploring a Supreme Court nominee's set of constitutional views and commitments".

Until we acknowledge that the white majority's often inaccurate association of crime and race contributes to the inhumane policies we maintain, we will not be able to make good on the promise of equal treatment that is essential to the legitimacy of any criminal-justice system.

The party still sees it as essential to its legitimacy to portray the country as a victim of Western efforts to contain and dismember it.Tony Blair, a former British prime minister, argued in the Wall Street Journal this week that the games would mark a "new epoch", involving an irreversible opening up of China and a steady decline of "ignorance and fear" of the country.

As Thailand's military tightens its grip on the nation, General Prayuth Chan-ocha has now received a royal endorsement — an essential piece of legitimacy — for his new position as head of the National Council for Peace and Order.

The Obama administration pays much lip service to the administration of justice and promotion of rule of law as essential elements of legitimacy, but in Afghanistan the bark doesn't seem to have any bite.