Sentence examples for legitimate function from inspiring English sources

Takeovers have a legitimate function: to weed out weak companies.

"It serves no legitimate function; it doesn't increase public safety.

That choise evades a traditonal responsibility & denies the legitimate function of a political party in a democratic society.

"It is a legitimate function of art to provoke debate and sometimes to express controversial ideas," the artists wrote in a letter to The Guardian.

In their view, the only legitimate function of philosophy is conceptual analysis i.e., the logical clarification of concepts, especially those associated with natural science (e.g., probability and causality).

Alt also believes that the radical changes will recenter hunting on the most legitimate function the activity has in the eyes of nonhunting citizens -- as a way to help control an exploding Pennsylvania herd now numbering 1.3 million deer.

The reconstruction of Haiti will need a legitimate, functioning state.

In other words, it had nothing to do with the legitimate functions of finance.

Kabul Bank did serve some legitimate functions — for instance, the United States paid the salaries of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police and teachers through it.

The choice, Reagan said, was between the Johnson Administration, which Reagan called "socialist" (because of the War on Poverty), and Goldwater, representing the Founding Fathers, who, as Reagan imagined it, knew that "outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy".

As magazine declared at the time, "To be compelled to pass judgment on the achievements and character of persons not yet deceased has hitherto been regarded as something not compatible with the legitimate functions of such an august publication as the Britannica.