Sentence examples for generally legitimate from inspiring English sources

Few theorists after Thomas Hobbes and David Hume have argued that there is a general duty to obey the law or that political authority is generally legitimate (Hobbes 1668; Hume 1965).

Are these Internet genealogy and ancestry services generally legitimate businesses?

Hereby, special attention was paid to the United Nations as the only currently available platform for international exchange incorporating all states of the Earth and being regarded as generally legitimate by world society.

And whereas in the 20th century the public sector was seen generally as legitimate and as providing a valuable social good, privatisation and the market culture are now seen as superior and the public sector is denigrated – at least implicitly.

An Dun, a best-selling author and journalist, welcomes the trade bill for the increased copyright protection it will bring to a country where pirated books and compact discs generally outnumber legitimate ones.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, this is a democracy, so political participation generally is legitimate.

Social media, while generally a legitimate celebrity mouthpiece, especially when procured from a verified account, is no longer a place to post thoughts and feelings, but a forum rife with advertising potential and contract obligations that celebrities have to fulfill.

The operation paved the way for elections generally seen as legitimate.

Countries that allow the free flow of information and debate, the exposing of corruption and other difficult issues, generally have more legitimate governments, more social resilience and stronger economies.

Transjordan retained the lands on the west bank of the Jordan River, including the eastern portion of Jerusalem (East Jerusalem), although its annexation of those lands in 1950 was not generally recognized as legitimate.

This is because we don't know how to make a wheel that is still generally useful for legitimate wheel applications, but useless to bad guys.