Sentence examples for merely legitimate from inspiring English sources
It makes the present government's obsession with top-down tinkering and micro-management seem not merely legitimate, but positively required.
Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
But they insist that a (merely) legitimate distribution can suffice to generate duties of repair.
The official purpose of Part III of ASU, "Utopia", is to show that the minimal state is not merely legitimate and just; it is also inspiring.
In relation to institutions, and institutional processes, roles and purposes, I have insisted that if they are to have the potential to be corrupted then they must be morally legitimate, and not merely legitimate in some weaker sense, e.g. lawful.
While consent and informed consent are relevant to medical torts, to distributive and proprietary medical claims, and to ideal (as opposed to merely legitimate) doctor-patient relationships, this entry focuses on informed consent in its central role as a legitimacy requirement for medical intervention.
Only "legitimate" investigations.
They asked the inspector general to examine internal documents at the Justice Department and F.B.I. on political protests and to determine if the inquiries "focused on actual threats of violence or merely involved legitimate political and antiwar activity".
By turns incorrigible and endearing, practical and romantic, shameless and courageous, Pepys possessed an endless curiosity about himself, convinced that his own personality, as Claire Tomalin writes in her exemplary new biography, was "not merely a legitimate but a valuable and glorious subject for exploration".
The appeals court sharply criticized Mr. Kuller for merely assuming a legitimate business purpose existed.
Ingabire's history casts doubt on her claim to have merely raised a legitimate issue for discussion.
