"I think this sends a message to the legitimate construction people out there that want to compete in the bidding process, that want to compete on different projects, that somebody is there looking out for your interests," Mr. Kerik said.
Alternatively, the government contends that even if the primary purpose test was a legitimate construction of FISA prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, that act's amendments to FISA eliminate that concept...
Before his conviction, he maintained that his income came from legitimate trucking, construction and real estate businesses.
He said that unless the Florida Supreme Court had "simply passed the bounds of legitimate statutory construction," he did not see how it was possible to find any federal constitutional problem with the state court's action.
And unless you can convince us, it seems to me, that in construing 168, which is what we're concerned with now, and its coordination or lack of coordination with 166, the Florida Supreme Court has simply passed the bounds of legitimate statutory construction, then I don't see how we can find an Article II violation here.
Just as importantly, we see in Descartes' letter his attempt to expand the scope of legitimate geometrical constructions beyond straightedge and compass by appealing to the motions needed to construct a curve.
It also owns seemingly legitimate companies in construction, energy, telecommunications, auto manufacturing, and banking.
With the recession depressing revenues from the gangs' legitimate businesses like construction, they have become more dependent on their illegal activities, like traffic in drugs and guns.
That helped Mr Coke diversify into legitimate businesses: his construction company won numerous government contracts and gave out jobs to Tivoli's residents.Within Tivoli Gardens, the gang operated a virtual para-state.
The dominant form of organizing urban infrastructure (water, energy, waste, transport) by state agencies has been replaced in many places by various PPP constructions, with different reasons put forward to legitimate such new constructions (cf. Linder 1999).
Some of its proceeds have gone into construction and legitimate businesses.
