Sentence examples for legitimate functioning from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When the public editor, in pursuing his legitimate function, is stonewalled by the executive editor and the publisher of The New York Times, it is the public itself that is being stonewalled and disrespected.

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).

He denied that government the only legitimate function of which was, in his view, the essentially negative one of maintaining public order could advance the moral sensibility of the human race.