Sentence examples for legitimate responses from inspiring English sources

Some of the people round me in the auditorium were laughing; some were shocked and bemused – all entirely legitimate responses.

Using what Çağaptay calls an "authoritarian underdog strategy", Erdoğan portrays his crackdowns on the opposition as legitimate responses to threats to remove him from power.

Where George saw the dissent and protest of the 1960s as legitimate responses to real social and political problems, Mitt saw only inexplicable disorder and lack of proper deference toward authority.

Racial criminalization has continued to this day, stigmatizing black people as dangerous, legitimizing or excusing white-on-black violence, conflating crime and poverty with blackness, and perpetuating punitive notions of "justice" — vigilante violence, stop-and-frisk racial profiling and mass incarceration — as the only legitimate responses.

The upshot, the author argues, is that while the world appears to be taking a more serious look at public health, "anxiety over pandemic preparedness" makes it "easier for national governments to take actions which exceeded international norms and to justify patently protectionist measures as legitimate responses to disease".

There are a few legitimate responses, but one time-worn approach can be all but ruled out.

They have had no legitimate response.

They view the crackdown as a legitimate response.

Victimhood is a legitimate response to targeted abuse.

"Vote for Dave and we'll get rid of punctuation" is therefore one legitimate response.

But resistance is a legitimate response of the occupied against the occupiers".