Sentence examples for legitimacy war from inspiring English sources

The Shah of Iran collapsed, as did the apartheid regime in South Africa, because of defeats in the legitimacy war.

Winning the legitimacy war is no guarantee that Palestinian self-determination will be achieved in the coming years.

I believe it matters greatly in what might be called "the second war" - the legitimacy war that often ends up shaping the political outcome more than battlefield results.

The Bush administration's ill-founded insistence that Saddam colluded with al-Qaida, and even with the 9/11 attacks, seriously undermined whatever legitimacy the "war on terror" might have had.

A self-described youthful "hairy leftie" and "peacenik" who was arrested in 1985 for reading psalms on the runway of an American air base in Britain, the full-bearded new archbishop has aggressively entered the political arena, challenging Mr. Blair's assertion of moral legitimacy for war in Iraq and castigating the United States for withdrawing from environmental treaties.

Al-Azhar also provided legitimacy for war with Israel in 1967, declaring the conflict against Israel a "holy struggle".

That will be very important to the legitimacy of any war.

Many of these governments need greater legitimacy before the war on terror can be won.

Security Council approval -- 9 of 15 votes are needed -- would lend international legitimacy to a war.

Besides, the legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

The NATO commitment is particularly important to the United States because it gives international legitimacy to the war.