Sentence examples for legitimate object from inspiring English sources
The NHS is a wholly legitimate object of scrutiny, at election time or any other.
This is a legitimate object, but as roadside spraying is commonly carried out, it has many undesirable side effects.
Translation: if the lines in Shakespeare's plays, written for and much enlivened by (sufficiently inspired) performance, make a legitimate object of reverence and study, what's your problem?
We cannot assume on this record that the action of the senate was without a legitimate object, and so encroach upon the province of that body.
In a process that Foucault called "normalization," a supposedly objective social science labels as "normal" or "rational" behaviour that society deems respectable or desirable, so behaviour deemed otherwise becomes abnormal or irrational and a legitimate object of discipline or coercion.
Well before 1789, it was embodied in David Hume, the sceptical philosopher and staunchly Tory historian who was Smith's closest friend, and the legitimate object of Hayek's greatest admiration.
"He was one of the primary people who realized these were legitimate objects of study".
Instead we are still at a puppet show in which the people who are the legitimate objects of international surveillance – namely politicians, heads of state, military officers, and diplomats – are screaming about how they should not be listened to.
A number of museum directors, art dealers and their lawyers said in interviews that many legitimate objects did not have this kind of paperwork, because things are often sold privately and because people do not necessarily keep bills of sale.
Many of the jailed Americans may be guilty of the crimes with which they are charged and are legitimate objects of Mexican efforts to curb gun smuggling and drug trafficking.
The contingencies which were the principal threats to existing standards were "(I) industrial accidents, (2) illness, (3) invalidity and old age, (4) premature death, (5) unemployment" (ibid). All these, Seager felt, were legitimate objects of collective action.
