Sentence examples for legitimate authorities from inspiring English sources

"Some of our foreign, western partners think otherwise, considering them to be legitimate authorities.

It's just an ultimatum, blackmail of the state, of the legitimate authorities," Sarksyan told Pashinyan.

They believe that it is right to defer to legitimate authorities and to respect people with high status.

In a television interview last week, Hamid al-Ahmar demanded that the president "be handed over to the legitimate authorities of the revolution" to be tried.

Hollande called upon the coup participants to immediately lay down their weapons and hand power to legitimate authorities "or assume all of the consequences".

"This is part of a much wider movement which has to be led first and foremost by the countries and legitimate authorities in the region.

Corruption is the illegal use of legitimate authority.

"He remains our interlocutor and the legitimate authority," she said.

So understood, physicians do not have legitimate authority over their patients, and patients do not have legitimate authority over their physicians.

On this conception, associations of physicians sometimes have legitimate authority over individual physicians, and physicians sometimes count as members subject to the legitimate authority of these associations.

God, it seems, may be a legitimate authority in the Bible Belt, but not in Babylon.