Sentence examples for illegitimate rule from inspiring English sources
Some of them carried leaves, symbolizing peace, and chanted that they denounced Gbagbo's illegitimate rule.
"Illegitimate rule in itself is a recipe for instability," he said, urging that fraud investigations be pursued to the end.
The question of whether the Republic will live or die has now been decisively posed in this form: Will we remove a lawless Administration from office or will we submit to illegitimate rule?
All of this almost guarantees a period of illegitimate rule in Honduras — and of incessant exploitation of the situation by Mr. Chávez, the unlikely champion of Jeffersonian democracy in Latin America.
The opposition was faced with an excruciating dilemma: whether to join an election that would be its first chance in twenty years to have a share of power, and thereby legitimize the regime's illegitimate rule, or boycott on principle and accept more years of essentially impotent resistance.
Long moribund, Maduro's opponents have found a new voice since Juan Guaidó, the young head of Venezuela's opposition-run national assembly, declared himself ready to assume the presidency as a result of Maduro's illegitimate rule and received backing from rightwing governments in Brazil, Colombia and the United States.
He is no longer the politician who was forced to end illegitimate white rule because of mass protest and international condemnation but, according to the Sunday Telegraph, "the man who legislated himself out of power"; no longer history's receptacle but its master.
General Zia knew he was an illegitimate ruler so, as the Pakistani political analyst Husain Haqqani put it, "he based his rule on a military-mosque alliance".
If the state is illegitimate, the normal rules of political behaviour no longer apply.
The French government has declared his rule "illegitimate".
The Bush administration said today that it was working to foster opposition to President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, calling his rule illegitimate and irrational.
