Sentence examples for had legitimate reason from inspiring English sources

Fry's men had legitimate reason for concern.

But many other players had legitimate reason to hope, and the weekend had legitimate potential for drama.

Whitehall officials defended MI5 on Monday, insisting that the security service had legitimate reason to seek information on LIFG members, because it believed the group had links with Islamic extremists – ties that were not severed until 2009.

Online service providers would have to comply unless they had "legitimate" reason to do otherwise.

Without knowing the whole background, I'll even assume for purposes of argument that the UC Davis authorities had legitimate reason to clear protestors from an area of campus -- and that if protestors wanted to stage a civil-disobedience resistance to that effort, they should have been prepared for the consequence of civil disobedience, which is arrest.

The same wasn't true in Iraq, where Hussein certainly had legitimate reason to be worried.

On the other hand, they have had legitimate reasons for not doing better.

"I took my lickings for selling Erving, but I had legitimate reasons for doing it".

Their brashness earned them a place (rarely positive) in the lexicon, but they had legitimate reasons for concern.

"Britain certainly thought it had legitimate reasons for going in, and I think it did," she says.

A senior federal official involved with assessing the proposed exemptions said that most of the agricultural users had legitimate reasons.