Sentence examples for legitimate matter from inspiring English sources

B. It's generally regarded as a legitimate matter of controversy (not, e.g., like vaccination).

Kavanaugh's defenders will pretend that his ideology is not a legitimate matter for senatorial examination.

"Resistance is a legitimate matter -- even more, it is a duty," he said on television.

Each of Baker's themes is a legitimate matter of debate, and all have been debated many times.

Of course, the status of Mlle Trierweiler, who is paid for by the French taxpayer, is a legitimate matter for enquiry.

If banks earn huge profits, and their traders huge bonuses, only because of an implicit state subsidy, that seems a legitimate matter of public concern.

The land and daily life of Latin America were thus increasingly becoming legitimate subject matter.

[I]t belongs and appertains to the citizen, and not to the Government, and it is the evidence of his election to exercise his right, and not the power to control either the election or the right itself, which is the legitimate subject matter of legislation.

If, as Collingwood argues, there are presuppositions which are meaningful, even if unverifiable, this means that metaphysics does have a legitimate subject matter after all, even if it is not "pure being" and that Collingwood has succeeded in defending the possibility (of some form of) metaphysics against the logical positivist's critique.

How much it costs and who pays for it are legitimate matters of public concern and legislative action.

Such issues, among others, are legitimate matters of democratic struggle, to be decided by elections, legislative debates, protests and the other normal tools of democracy.