Rafael Rafaj, the author of the bill and a member of the Slovak National Party, which is a junior partner in the government coalition, argued that the legislation was a legitimate attempt to assert self-esteem in a tiny country that spent most of its history subsumed by larger states.
The Catechism asserts that "it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life".
At that point, all being well, more insurgents might accept the new order, a newly legitimate government may begin to assert itself, and the Americans and their allies could start gradually leaving.
We need to decide who owns our individual DNA, and whether it's legitimate for an entity to assert ownership of a pre-existing genome – say, a strain of rice – because they decoded it.
"They'll try to assert legitimate political control".
If consumers are serious enough to assert legitimate membership into high society, they cannot fake it with counterfeit handbags.
France, like Britain, has legitimate historical and cultural reasons to assert itself in the world.
The award, often called the "Asian Nobel Prize", was bestowed for "his irrepressible passion for justice in leading ordinary Chinese citizens to assert their legitimate rights under the law".
In 2007, Chen won the Asian equivalent of the Nobel prize, awarded by the Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, whicitedted his "irrepressible passion for justice in leading ordinary Chinese citizens to assert their legitimate rights under the law".
Both the movement and Palin have been branded, and ridiculed by commentators and politicians, as hollow and devoid of any substance; both are seeking to assert themselves as legitimate political forces.
