Sentence examples for legitimate writing from inspiring English sources

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"The effects produced by the violins, con sordini, and throughout the snowstorm scene are excellent, though perhaps not quite legitimate," wrote Charles Burkhardt in The Albion.

"Many Sicilians consider paying protection money to the mafia perfectly legitimate," he writes.

"Will all you sanctimonious fuckers fuck the fuck off Jenny Beavan is a friend and joshing is legitimate," he wrote.

"At this point, we have determined that the thieves made approximately 1,100 attempts to steal data with a very sophisticated strategy that involved sending staff a total of seven 'phishing' e-mails, all of which at first glance appeared legitimate," he wrote in an e-mail message sent to employees on Monday.

But Stephenson insists that, while this all looks bad, the company didn't do anything illegal: "Everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate," he wrote in the email sent to employees.

On Monday, members of the US Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations signed a letter expressing concern over eroding rights and freedoms in Angola, specifically addressing the fate of the Angola 15. "While I respect the sovereign right of the Angolan government to investigate and prosecute legitimate threats," wrote Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md ., the committee's ranking member.

Still, he said it was "a pretty big deal" because it showed that the App Store could be compromised if hackers infected machines of software developers writing legitimate apps.

I believe I had legitimate reasons for writing the book, but I understand why novels based on real people, especially living people, make some readers queasy.

"It comes down to this: journalists writing legitimate news stories in the public interest now have police trawling through their private metadata all because a government agency is embarrassed about a leak," Murphy said.

In his measured statement to the inquiry, he said the former regulator, the Press Complaints Commission, had offered "reasonable protection to journalists writing legitimate stories who are frequently forced to fight misconceived complaints".