Sentence examples for illegitimate system from inspiring English sources
Like most of Occupy Wall Street's core organizers, P. is an anarchist, meaning that he is "dedicated to the eradication of any unjust or illegitimate system.
In a 2004 interview with the rightwing newspaper Junge Freiheit, Voigt described Hitler as "a great German statesman", and the current democratic German republic as "an illegitimate system".
A video of actor Russell Brand being interviewed by the BBC's Jeremy Paxman went viral last year precisely because of Brand's compelling arguments that we should not vote and that voting only legitimises a fundamentally illegitimate system.
"Civilian trials in federal courts have resulted in hundreds of successful terrorism prosecutions," said Donna O'Connor, a spokeswoman for the group, "whereas military commissions are an illegitimate system that undermines the rule of law".
In his 2005 memoir, Judge Garzón wrote, "A system built on the corpses of those who are still awaiting justice so they can rest in peace is an illegitimate system and one that is condemned to eventually suffer the same fate".
This offers them someone to blame for their plight illegitimate governments, illegitimate banking systems.
Montazeri spoke out against the disputed poll, opposing the election results and condemning as illegitimate a political system that maintained power through repression and force.
Indeed, the prospect of trial in the illegitimate military commissions system was an awful one.
"I expect the NPD are therefore trying to be very strict internally about cracking down on anything that might hint at a rejection of democratic principles (though plenty of comments have slipped out that would make you think they despise democracy, such as Udo Voigt [the party's former leader] describing modern Germany as an 'illegitimate system')," he says.
But now, as the veto powers of two permanent members (Russia and China) obstruct its attempt to pour petrol on another Middle Eastern fire, the US suddenly decides that the system is illegitimate.
Podemos promoted itself as a populist alternative, using slogans that drew on a familiar international vocabulary with overtones of Occupy and of the European anti-austerity movement: "We Are the 99%"; "The Debt Is Illegitimate"; "The Two-Party System Is a Thing of the Past".
