Sentence examples for illegitimate functions from inspiring English sources

On the level of institutions it becomes important to distinguish the legitimate from the illegitimate functions of institutions and to make the corresponding distinction for the uses of force by these institutions.

Moreover, whereas the 10% share in 1912 was spent largely on legitimate functions (defense, police, courts, infrastructure), most of the 40% today is spent on illegitimate functions like the redistribution of income, unfunded Ponzi schemes (Social Security), and deeply-larded public employee unions.

However if you are part of the current conservative movement, which finds these functions illegitimate for a state to carry out, this disruption is bonus.

According to the University of Toronto political scientist Lynette Ong, who studies the patron-client relationship between local governments and thugs, goons are frequently used to execute decisions, especially in "the gray areas between legitimate state functions and illegitimate state policies," such as land expropriation and forced evictions.

All other functions are illegitimate and violate rights.

So I think we're kind of caught in no man's land between an illegitimate G8, not yet a functioning G20, and without a multilateral system that's even wider that works.

No matter how absurd the details get in any given case, the story he tells Republican voters is always pretty much the same: The mechanisms of accountability are really functioning as an illegitimate plot against him — against them — so they must get out to vote, to keep Congress in Republican hands, to act as a shield against that plot.

Additionally, in between these DNA regions, insulator elements have been identified in animals, which are bound by proteins, that mediate insulator function and prevent illegitimate activation or repression of neighboring loci [1].

For continued function of organs and tissues, illegitimate changes in cell identity must be avoided.

The tethering of chromosomes ends has an additional function: it protects telomeres from illegitimate end-to-end fusions that would otherwise lead to dicentric chromosome formation.

He said "hidden manipulation, illegal naked short selling and illegitimate trading tactics" posed a threat to proper functioning markets.