Sentence examples for illegitimate use from inspiring English sources

The other judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, said it was "an illegitimate use of the statute".

Where's the line between legitimate use of thyroid hormone to treat a condition and illegitimate use to enhance performance?

Indeed, libertarians believe that the primary purpose of government is to protect citizens from the illegitimate use of force.

In his comments on the new policy, Mr. Karzai said that his government considered airstrikes "as an absolutely disproportionate use of force and an illegitimate use of force".

"Relying on the material witness statute to detain people who are presumed innocent under our Constitution in order to prevent potential crimes is an illegitimate use of the statute," Judge Scheindlin wrote.

But of course coercion is not the test of establishment of religion: paying for a church service would not cease to be an illegitimate use of government funds even if the worship was noncoercive and involved no outreach.

One way to do this would be to make a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate uses of values.

For Machiavelli, there is no moral basis on which to judge the difference between legitimate and illegitimate uses of power.

Cartoonist Dave Sim praised the book and wrote that he reread it frequently, but called it "a bit illegitimate" to use the term "graphic novel" for works of such brevity; he stated he could read the book in "twenty to thirty minutes", which he argued amounted to "the equivalent of a twenty-page short story".

That has included a rambling Facebook post charging that "leftist activists and the foreign and international media are conspiring to get Tzipi [Livni] and 'Buji' [Herzog] elected via illegitimate means, using innuendo and foreign money.

In its modern usage the word tyranny is usually pejorative and connotes the illegitimate possession or use of such power.