"If our political system wants to survive and regain its legitimacy, it has no choice but to give in to our demands for freedom".
We refuse to abandon our aspirations for democracy in Burma and give the regime the legitimacy it wants for its elections.
While the spread of illusion flips bolstered the trick's legitimacy, it also sparked its downfall.
If the regime is to keep any of its deeply damaged legitimacy, it will have to answer the protesters' demands and recognize the popular longing for freedom and equality.
If a Jewish State of Israel is to stake a claim to moral legitimacy, it will need to confront its history of violence.
In the north, joining the power-sharing government of a province whose legitimacy it does not accept has not damaged its standing among Catholic voters.
At a later stage, when the firm has acquired some reputation and legitimacy, it is willing and able to manage its network intentionally and move beyond the path-dependent core networks.
In undermining the liberty of its citizens, the Kremlin jeopardizes the very sort of legitimacy it is so desperate to gain.
"In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorises its own people a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost," Mr Obama said.
In the fight against [IS], we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorises its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost".
Legitimacy, it turns out, matters.
