Now, Laurie says, those groups face a decision between giving a nod of approval to an electoral process dogged by violence and claims of vote-rigging, or deeming the new administration to be illegitimate, a move that would push the country deeper into pariah status and ultimately harm ordinary Zimbabweans.
When the Secretariat tried to increase his influence in building a consensus and facilitating coordination between participating UN agency cosponsors and the Member States, UN agency cosponsors viewed this endeavor as an illegitimate, ineffective move (ibid).
The Fall of Man in Paradise Losthas its equivalent in the critical act: to cross the boundary into illegitimate knowledge, moving out from what is present, fitting and needful, to "things remote / From use, obscure and subtle" (book 8, ll. 191-2) is to risk entering the "wrong" context.
Recognition of Israel as a Jewish state by concerned international parties would serve to legitimise the series of racist laws and bills currently before the Knesset, and would turn the legal, political struggle of the Palestinian national minority into an illegal and illegitimate struggle – a move that would be fatal to democracy.
The new Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has called the move "illegitimate and with no legal basis", as Ukraine's constitution states that any change to its borders must be approved by the whole country.
Strictly speaking, I suppose, there is something almost illegitimate about being moved by a symphony when it is performed outdoors and the light is falling and the humidity isn't too high.
Faculty plan to challenge both Zeithaml's interim presidency and Sullivan's ouster as legally illegitimate because the moves failed to consider faculty input.
Mr Guaidó says the move is illegitimate.
The US and EU joined the Ukrainian government in condemning Crimea's move as "illegitimate".
But the three main opposition leaders described the move as "illegitimate", saying the pro-presidential MPs had decided to use voting by a show of hands after realising they did not have enough support.
