Sentence examples for legitimate actor from inspiring English sources

Was it tough making the transition to legitimate actor?

"It's a huge challenge, but to be a global human rights organisation, to be a legitimate actor, we need to be here on the ground," he said.

The relative popular success of this practice has encouraged yet another bad habit: dispensing with the search for bona fide musical-theater talent in favor of hiring a "legitimate" actor who can act a song rather than sing it.

Yet it is not recognized as a legitimate actor in the region and has been financially abandoned by the international community, which continues to ignore the reality on the ground in favor of the flimsy transitional federal government, a 550-member parliamentary hodgepodge ruling over a few checkpoints in Mogadishu, hundreds of miles from any real pirate activity.

Mr. Vollmer told Stern magazine that the Bush administration "isn't trying to create stability worldwide through the principle of the rule of law, but is pushing through a near-missionary program against evil -- a program where the only legitimate actor is the United States".

As long as the Islamic State is an active terrorist group, however, it will never be viewed as a legitimate actor.

Naím's thinking seems slightly dated in its loyalty to the notion that states are a priori legitimate actors.

Leaders such as Nicolas Sarkozy of France endlessly declare that the financial markets are acting as "speculators": ie, not as rational or legitimate actors.

National executives occupy a gatekeeper position between the international and the domestic political spheres because they are the only legitimate actors in both spheres.

The United States government and other countries' governments have repeatedly entered into contracts with corrupt people and paid off rights abusers thinking they were legitimate actors.

Chase said he had a job on one film "with two legitimate actors, about a senator's daughter who meets a handsome guy at a ski lodge.