The phrase "illegitimate force" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts discussing authority, power, or actions that are not recognized as lawful or justified.
Example: "The government's use of illegitimate force against its citizens sparked widespread protests."
Alternatives: "unlawful force" or "unauthorized force."
"Cannabis was my gateway to social justice and to the idea of the government as an oppressive, illegitimate force," he said the other day.
It was to try to provoke the university authorities into calling the police, who might then club and beat the students in the seized buildings, thus shocking and "radicalizing" the moderate majority of students by supposedly demonstrating that the power of the university rested on illegitimate force, just as the government's did in Vietnam.
Sovereign debt is supposed to be paid no matter who runs a country, but President Fernández has always considered this defaulted debt to be illegitimate, forced onto the Argentines by dictators acting in concert with international financial speculators.
Even though Mr. Ouattara is recognized internationally as the winner of last year's election, Gbagbo supporters may now have even more reason to see him as illegitimate, forced upon them by outside intervention.
Thus the point at which legitimate force becomes illegitimate violence is determined by the symbolic power invested in the state.
It would be better to say that the United States is considering rooting out an illegitimate occupying force.
Freezing temperatures, fewer daylight hours and the wintry mix, snow's illegitimate sibling, force most activities indoors.
"I believe that you must confront illegitimate governments with force of arms," she said.
Indeed, libertarians believe that the primary purpose of government is to protect citizens from the illegitimate use of force.
Human Rights Accounting The rights group is making plans to send researchers to Afghanistan in March to estimate the number of civilians killed and to investigate those attacks that might have arisen from an illegitimate use of force.
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan issued an impassioned call for the end of international airstrikes in his country on Tuesday, branding them as an "illegitimate use of force" and saying that the need to protect civilian life demanded a complete halt to those operations, even in cases when troops are under attack.
