Sentence examples for legitimated only from inspiring English sources

This is as much a political question as a military one: do we want to be in the position of letting a corrupt government legitimated only by a fraud-riddled election tell us where we can send our troops?

But governments are legitimate only if they recognize and respect the natural law.

Their power is legitimate only if they give reasoned arguments for what they do.

At stake now are the scheduled elections, which will appear legitimate only if there is a large voter turnout.

Under the Sixth Amendment, the Supreme Court said last year, a plea is legitimate only if a defendant has had assistance of counsel while considering it.

The panel decided in January that the practice is legitimate only when the participants can show a history of collecting cash payments for "similar advertising" within the last six months.

U.S. (1919): a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a "clear and present danger"—i.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent.

The Court split the difference, ruling that limits on campaign spending are unconstitutional, because they violate the First Amendment, and that limits on campaign contributions are legitimate only if they target one kind of corruption: quid pro quo.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

The theory is that flexibility and part-time work will become legitimate only when men start taking advantage of them.

For such a consensus counts as legitimate only when achieved under conditions of free and authentic affirmation of shared principles.