Sentence examples for legitimate tools from inspiring English sources

"While M.I.T. certainly abides by the laws that protect national security, we also believe that the legitimate tools of classification of secrets should not be misused to limit responsible debate," the statement said.

But first we should decide on various principles of child rearing, one being whether or not we think incentives and disincentives are legitimate tools in the bringing up of children at all.

"Most of the techniques that Enron used are legitimate tools that were totally abused," said Hans Stoll, who directs the Financial Markets Research Center at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.

In five days on the witness stand, Judge Bork had a chance to explain himself fully, to describe and defend his view that the Constitution's text and the intent of its 18th-century framers provided the only legitimate tools for constitutional interpretation.

One of the documents that Lindh's defense team was able to find during the discovery phase of the case was a statement from a U.S. marine to a Navy medic, explaining that the U.S. military viewed sleep deprivation, cold, and hunger as legitimate tools of interrogation.

Under normal circumstances, off balance sheet entities are legitimate tools that can protect investors.

social change is a legitimate tool for improving health.

A spokesman for Mr. Edwards defended the center yesterday as a legitimate tool against poverty.

The e-mail continued, "Fabrication is a legitimate tool — for fiction.

I think foreign aid is a legitimate tool for foreign policy.

"This was a legitimate tool — it was worth the money, it was worth the risk".