Sentence examples for lacking legitimacy from inspiring English sources

Leaders, lacking legitimacy, took refuge in Arab nationalism and came to depend on coercion instead of consent.

As an unelected yet influential body, the UN has always been in danger of lacking legitimacy with those it is meant to serve.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki may dominate the television screens, but he is increasingly seen as a figure lacking legitimacy who is sliding towards embracing all-out sectarianism.

The war just unilaterally declared by President Bush (front page, March 20), in addition to lacking legitimacy and harming the United States' global image for a long time, is likely to turn most if not all of Iraq into rubble.

Mr. Chalabi, who has had strong backing from the Pentagon, added that the caucuses proposed by American officials were a "sure-fire way to have instability" because they would result in a transitional assembly lacking legitimacy.

Lacking legitimacy in the eyes of both Iraq and the rest of the world, defying international standards and declaring its own, the Administration has had to base its claim on good intentions.

In many cases they lack legitimacy.

The result may lack legitimacy at home and abroad.

Clearly, from a Scottish perspective, a Tory/Lib Dem government lacks legitimacy.

But don't let one party dictate that another party lacks legitimacy.

Both federalists and sceptics agree on one thing, though: the present set-up lacks legitimacy.