"legitimate actions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe actions that are recognized or approved by the law or society in general. For example, "The government has taken legitimate actions to ensure the safety of the citizens."
"There is a substantial difference between such deliberate attacks against civilians and children and unintentional strikes against civilians that are part of legitimate actions to fight terrorism.
"Israeli forces continue to do their utmost to ensure that their legitimate actions against terror inflict the barest minimum of harm on the civilian population," the Israeli mission said.
We consider a system specification Spec that models the investigated system by a set of variables and a library of elementary actions containing suspicious and legitimate actions.
This implies that regimes without any doubt are characterized by a certain stability (dominant actors, rules, cognitive frames, and legitimate actions), but that does not mean that only uniform behavior can be observed.
This is an issue that needs to be addressed everywhere, but the hot spots right now are areas where extreme laws make what would be legitimate actions in the US or Europe into fairly serious crimes in their jurisdictions.
The results of a survey reveal that top managers of firms reflecting a flexibility dominant type tend to use more performance measures and to use PMS to focus organizational attention, support strategic decision-making and legitimate actions to a greater extent than top managers of firms reflecting a control dominant type.
"Resistance for us is a legitimate action.
He said he would take "merciless legitimate action against any force bent on destabilising the area".
They always put out statements saying that they really support peaceful and legitimate action, but they don't in practice.
Grant Thornton International issued a statement noting that it had expelled the Italian affiliate and saying it "does not accept that this is a legitimate action" by Parmalat.
This appears to have been a legitimate action, because eBay is not suing for breach of the stockholders agreement or otherwise asserting that this failure was wrongful.
