If intervention were clearly the preferred choice, we need at least two things to make it legitimate: congressional approval and a meaningful coalition.
British courts have recognized 331 and 346 days as legitimate with the approval of medical consultants.
The 62-year-oldrocker went on to agree with TV talk show host David Letterman, who said he prefers musicians to have the "honest, legitimate stamp of approval" that comes from gradual success.
In 2004, Annan declared that the war, which never gained a legitimate stamp of approval from the U.N., was "illegal". High-intensity protest mobilization continued, plateauing in 2007 and then attenuating over the next few years.
Since marriage in Islam is not considered to be legitimate without parental approval, many Muslim adolescents feel that they are forced to choose between their partner and their parents.
It spelled out procedures designed to speed approval of legitimate stem cell therapies.
Refusing to recognize the interim government in Kiev as legitimate, Putin requested parliamentary approval to dispatch troops to Ukraine to safeguard Russian interests.
Music Matters puts a seal of approval on legitimate online sources of recordings that ensure royalties will be paid to the artists.
Muslim groups struggled for years to persuade the Treasury Department to produce some kind of seal of approval for legitimate charities that adhered strictly to humanitarian work.
That explains the enormous difference in international opinion toward American military action in Afghanistan in the months after Sept. 11, which seemed to have tacit approval as legitimate self-defense, and toward American military action in Iraq, which is seen as the arbitrary act of an overbearing power.
As a liberal I've long since burned away my Palin ire, and now see her as a legitimate political figure, her approval ratings, and, as such, she is almost certain to crash and burn as a Republican/third party candidate for president (her disapproval ratings) or settle into comfort as yet another FOX demagogue.
