He insists that he is a legitimate air-cargo operator framed by a perfidious superpower.
He said Mr. Bout had not been an arms dealer but had run a legitimate air-cargo business that transported arms, which, he added, was not a crime.
Last week, I found myself in the Wellcome's storerooms, wearing purple plastic gloves as I previewed some of the artefacts that will be on display alongside the scientific charts and graphs that gave early sexology a legitimate, disinterested air.
In the 1980s and 90s, when games were crappy and underground, and struggling to gain recognition from the mainstream either financially or artistically, attacking the system was apt and urgent – video games had a legitimate, heartfelt air of protestation.
But when people of good will are afraid to air legitimate arguments the illegitimate kind gains power.
The challenge to the panel has been led by Ralph F. Hall, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota and a device industry lawyer, who said the criticism was not an attempt to front-run the report's conclusions but rather to air legitimate concerns about how the review had been conducted.
WHEN you hear the insane notion of "legitimate rape" being aired by a Republican congressman — a member of the House science committee no less — it makes you wonder some days how we became the world's richest, most powerful country, and, more important, how we're going to stay there.
The US has been offering Russia a two-part deal in which the US will accept the Nusra front, the Syrian al-Qaida franchise, is a legitimate target for Russian air attacks, if the Syrian Air Force is in effect grounded, leaving Russia to conduct air assaults on extremist targets in Syria endorsed by the US.
