Sentence examples for legitimate contribution from inspiring English sources

I mean, the fact is, I took a legitimate contribution of clean hard money.

"There's a legitimate contribution there, but the work after that becomes ornamental, decorative and vacuous," he added.

Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei A. Ryabkov, this week defended its sale as a legitimate contribution to Syria's ability to defend itself against foreign military intervention, which appears to be Russia's primary concern in the conflict.

The question is this: In the view of experts, are both parties making a serious and legitimate contribution to the debate over what to do about a severe national crisis that's causing suffering among millions and millions of Americans?

"The world needs good scientists, but a scientific outlook becomes dangerously narrow if it ignores the religious or ethical dimension of life, just as religion becomes narrow if it rejects the legitimate contribution of science to our understanding of the world," he said.

John Keane, director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the university, said in the statement last Tuesday that his institute remained "firmly committed to the principle that academics are free to invite to our campus anyone who has a legitimate contribution to make to public debate".

In my long experience, they don't, though they can all make legitimate contributions.

Bismarck, who once cautioned that anyone who liked laws or sausages should not watch them being made, would almost certainly be appalled to see the spectacularly unseemly way modern campaign contributions are solicited -- even legitimate contributions.

Mr. Olmert, who the police say is suspected of receiving illicit funds, has described the money as legitimate contributions for election campaigns and has denied ever taking a bribe.

Providing David Ortiz, who had his contract extended through 2015 recently, can continue to be an inspiration to those approaching middle age, and Jackie Bradley Jr., Daniel Nava, Xander Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks make legitimate contributions over the long haul, there's no reason why the Sox can't be in a similar position this time around.

Pamela Geller is without question one of the most enthusiastic purveyors of hate speech in the United States.... Of course the appropriate response to hate speech is constructive speech, but organizations that are or wish to be respectable have an obligation not to treat hate speech as legitimate contributions to our national conversation.