Sentence examples for illegitimately from inspiring English sources

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illegitimately

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In an illegitimate manner.

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Once he was in the driving seat, Mr Yanukovich began to encroach even more.According to Mr Yushchenko, the Party of the Regions bribed and pressured opposition members of parliament to switch sides so as to gain an illegitimately big majority that would let Mr Yanukovich change the constitution.

But what does it say about us if the fact of illegitimately expansive executive discretion is suddenly of especially great concern, now that it has been exercised in a way that will protect the prospects of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and innocent young people?

Demonstrators are angrier than ever and determined to expel what they see as a vulgar nouveau-riche regime that took power illegitimately and has spent most of the past two decades squandering the nation's wealth.Yet happily for Mr Bashir, while the voices of dissent may be growing, they share no common vision.

Or it may do so illegitimately to arm undeclared nuclear weapons.

He is an appointee of both Mrs Ecclestone and Bambino: Mrs Ecclestone appointed him to the board of Petara in 1995; and Bambino to FOH's in 1998 and to SLEC's in 1999.In their case, the banks claim that Bambino has improperly and illegitimately wrested control of FOH (and hence FOA and FOM) through opportunistic and questionable legal manoeuvres, at the centre of which stood Mr Mullens.

Not only do both China and Vietnam claim the Spratly Islands to the south, but Vietnam regards itself as having been illegitimately evicted from the Paracel islands to the north, when China seized them in 1974 from the dying regime of the former South Vietnam.

Mr Yushchenko says he had no choice but to act after Viktor Yanukovich, whom he defeated in 2004 but who returned as prime minister two years later, had used "bribery and pressure" to amass an illegitimately big majority in parliament.

One executive reckons the total capital invested by those half-dozen in acquiring customers and kit might amount to $10 billion.Their legal position appears weak: a buyer of illegitimately acquired goods has no one to blame but himself.

Then there are the outside audits of the three senators, which news reports say cost about C$500,000, more than double the total amount the three are accused of illegitimately claiming, giving more fodder to the opposition.

Alipay a source of much bad blood with Yahoo, which felt Mr Ma seized control of it illegitimately, something Alibaba strongly denies has roughly half of China's online-payments market.

Whilst that didn't happen, more than 150,000 papers were judged to have been marked illegitimately and were sent for remark, and almost 50,000 grades were changed.

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