Sentence examples for legitimate exercise from inspiring English sources

"It was legitimately passed, and a legitimate exercise of the power of the Legislature and the governor, and I will defend it".

(The court nevertheless upheld the individual mandate as a legitimate exercise of Congress's taxing power).

"Not only is it a legitimate exercise in democracy, but I think they came up with some extraordinary ideas".

It's true that UK citizens, in the legitimate exercise of their sovereignty, will decide if they want to remain in or leave.

He maintained that the torture of Ealdama was "a legitimate exercise of force under the laws of war," being "justified by military necessity".

But in fact the ruling was a legitimate exercise of judicial authority aimed at achieving equity in a tangled political and legal situation.

The Second Disfranchisement Premise argues from disfranchisement to the "indignities and wrongs" resulting therefrom; the "accumulated potency" of these wrongs generates "an increase and intenseness of proscription," illustrating how human nature's "legitimate exercises" are "hindered" ("New York Convention Address," 203).

When the proponent of public reason states that political or moral rules must be publicly justifiably to be legitimate, she does not exert power or coercion over anyone, she merely states a condition that any purportedly legitimate exercises of power or coercion must meet to be legitimate.

It was not a smear campaign but a legitimate journalistic exercise.

Collecting data in the context of war, where coercion and offensive tactics are always potentially present, "can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology," the report says.

"Raising issue with the legitimate, defensive exercise is a provocation in itself," said Rear Adm. Kim Kyung-sik of South Korea said Wednesday, adding that live-fire battery exercises and torpedo and depth charge firing will all take place south of the so-called Northern Limit Line.