The black crowds in Soweto recognised him as one of their own, as a legitimate and worthy compatriot; the fact that Zuma had the same skin colour as them counted for nothing.
"As designers, investors, commentators, we need to seriously ask ourselves whether some of these systems are legitimate and worthy," he wrote; "… not from an investment return point of view, but from an ethical and moral point of view".
Absent concrete evidence that state officials routinely ignore substantive criteria set forth in statutes or regulations (and there is no such evidence here), it is only proper to assume that the criteria are regularly employed in practice, thereby creating legitimate expectations worthy of protection by the Due Process Clause.
What institutions and decisions are considered "legitimate" and worthy of compliance or participation; what courses of action are attractive; what forms of interaction with others are considered appropriate-these are all understandings negotiated from within a set of shared frames of meaning.
There's a distinction to be made between a whodunnit – in which the murder is no more than a plot point and you could say, if you were framing it at all in those terms, almost always immoral and a whydunnit, which looks at the psychology and ramifications of killing and can be (not necessarily is, but can be) a legitimate and worthy enterprise.
I believed that because the research questions I had framed were legitimate and worthy of study, it was okay to misrepresent 'minor' pieces of data to increase the odds that the grant would be awarded".
The letter is really worth reading in its entirety, but the heart of it was a call for faculty and administration at Columbia to "recognize our trauma as legitimate and worthy of a response".
Those who murdered over a cartoon in Paris have demonstrated no acceptance of the sacred uniqueness of each human life anywhere else and that is the sine qua non of a legitimate faith worthy of both national and international protection.
News outlets cover stories that highlight such issues of race -- often those in which a white officer has killed a black suspect -- because they involve legitimate concerns worthy of closer examination, not to create racial tension.
For a generation, the Republicans and their media allies have been teaching their followers to be excited about a guy who displays macho power, lies without the least pause, sows division between different groups of people, is a bully and unwilling to treat others as legitimate and worthy of respect.
