Sentence examples for lasting legitimacy from inspiring English sources

The process took longer than it might have if the United States had used a heavier hand, but in the end the participants produced a solid document, in their own terms, with lasting legitimacy.

To win lasting legitimacy, such a confederation must be built with the active consent of the governed.

It's not going to be lasting without taking on some kind of legitimacy, which would most likely completely change it anyway".

The idea of a musical genre being appropriated by another group of people isn't a new thing but back in 19th century, European approval give tango a legitimacy that lasts to this day.

I also want to expand on my general sense that the regime is losing legitimacy and cannot last indefinitely.

This initiative had US support and has become Saleh's last source of legitimacy.

"The regime in Tehran must heed the democratic demands of the Iranian people or lose its last claim to legitimacy," he said.

It has also quite probably signed the death warrant for the Iranian-trained and supported militias of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the foundation of Maliki's last thread of legitimacy as an "Iraqi government".

A decision by the U.S. to impose a new basis for peace negotiations - tossing out the 1967 lines and legitimizing Israeli de facto annexation of land through settlements - would deprive already weakened pro-diplomacy, anti-armed-struggle Palestinian leaders of their last shred of legitimacy.

Pentagon and CENTCOM officials, however, questioned whether Musharraf retained the political legitimacy essential for success in the counterinsurgency campaign that they now believed would last for five or more years.

Caliphal centralization had lasted 200 years; even after the caliphal empire became too large and complex to be ruled from a single centre, the separate emirates that replaced it all defined their legitimacy in relation to it, for or against.