Sentence examples for legitimate standing from inspiring English sources

He has no legitimate standing to attend the Rome conference therefore; the fig leaf of waiting for a rerun of a presidential election he has already lost, in the hope that his thugs can arrange another "win" next time, cannot possibly persuade anyone else at the Rome conference that he has a right to be there.

In Russia, the Catholic church has no legitimate standing.

It is a fully standing, legitimate water source.

Social practices are based on the dominant framing, and thus authorize certain actors and actions as legitimate, and define other approaches as standing outside of legitimate consideration.

So it's a great honor for a Fool to be given an opportunity to be with a real, legitimate, long-standing–.

The legitimate voice of Afghanistan is the man standing beside me," he said.

In the following I will speak of moral rights rather than legitimate claims, but nothing hinges on this as long as it is understood that having a legitimate claim implies another person or persons standing under the correlative duty to respond to the claim.

The FBI argues Apple is standing in the way of a legitimate investigation into an act of terrorism.

But not only did Roddick win that match, he did so looking like a legitimate threat to be one of the two men standing in this tournament's rain-delayed final on Monday.

These officials understand that they must safeguard the voting rights of their legitimate constituents, and, backed by federal law, they are admirably standing their ground against the tide.

I was attempting to see through the allegations of racism to residents' legitimate concerns over the sudden appearance of hundreds of men standing on street corners looking for work.