Sentence examples for illegitimate attempt from inspiring English sources

Several Iranian officials decried the move toward sanctions, saying it was an illegitimate attempt to thwart Iran's negotiations with Brazil and Turkey and predicting that new sanctions would not pass the Security Council.

The US would stand with Georgia, he said, "as you work to overcome an invasion of your sovereign territory and an illegitimate attempt to change your country's borders by force".

In this case, it suffices to say that the debater's attack on his opponent can be seen as an illegitimate attempt to deny him his right to make a case for his position.

But this, critics argue, amounts to an illegitimate attempt to impose a moral consensus inevitably the consensus of those with political power on societies which are rather characterised by radical moral disagreement; it denies to those who do not share that consensus the freedom to think and live as they see fit.

And that Obama's candidacy is almost like another illegitimate attempt to steal a White House that, in some sense, belongs to them.

One small, practical way you can do this is to look for opportunities to use "space marine" in published materials that aren't referring to Games Workshops' products, and to resist all other illegitimate attempts to police our language by using generic terms generically, even when companies object.

In his remarks with Mr. Saakashvili, though, Mr. Cheney left little room for negotiation, denouncing what he called "an illegitimate, unilateral attempt to change your country's borders by force that has been universally condemned by the free world".

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It seems somewhat disingenuous for the administration to quote international law considering that the U.S. is not a signatory to the UN International Court, having withdrawn in 2002 on the grounds that "the United States will regard as illegitimate any attempt by the court or state parties to the treaty to assert the ICC's jurisdiction over American citizens".

Some participants noted that the study or the researchers could be illegitimate and attempts could be made to deceive people and elicit personal information from them fraudulently.

Why not also deconstruct this ominous stealth phrase and reveal it for what it is: an illegitimate and unwise attempt to tear down the wall of separation between church and state and to force religion (or rather, certain people's religion) into the public arena.