Mr Santos wants to "formalise" legitimate small-scale miners, subjecting them to government regulation, while stripping the guerrillas and criminal groups of their new source of income.
Denber noted that even if some of the arrests were legitimate, the sheer scale of detentions made it "easy to see that it's disproportionate".
Wide-scale legitimate uses for the currency have proved elusive, and many now see bitcoin as a store of value rather than something with which you can buy a cheesesteak or pay for a manicure.
While there may be a legitimate role for small-scale production of biofuels, industrial-scale operations are revealing themselves to be just as ecologically disruptive as fossil fuels and just as socially disruptive as other kinds of monocropping.
One answer is to address legitimate grievances about the scale and nature of immigration.
Some people focused on the political impact, or the economic impact, and those are legitimate reactions, given the scale of the impact for the country.
But there have also been many examples in recent years, if not of such scale, of legitimate bookmakers being targeted in tennis, horse racing, snooker, football and elsewhere.
There are legitimate doubts about the scale of the impact, and about other offsetting factors that may reduce human-induced global warming.
In social science literature there is an ongoing debate [ 21] about whether or not it is legitimate to use Likert scale data in parametric statistical procedures that require interval data, such as Linear Regression.
Beijing said the maneuver was a legitimate response to "large-scale and highly frequent close-in reconnaissance" by American aircraft.
