Sentence examples for no legitimate function from inspiring English sources

"It serves no legitimate function; it doesn't increase public safety.

But without the interference of that stupid balk rule – which has no legitimate function – the pitcher can defend himself by breaking off and throwing to first whenever he needs to do that". It's unlikely any fan would lament the elimination of balks.

Loyalty oaths serve no legitimate function.

Takeovers have a legitimate function: to weed out weak companies.

I think fighting terrorism is an entirely legitimate function of government.

It is a legitimate function of art to provoke debate and sometimes to express controversial ideas.

That choise evades a traditonal responsibility & denies the legitimate function of a political party in a democratic society.

This remains a legitimate function, and if pensions were allowed to die, we would need something to take their place.

But I add, though, that I do think this is not a legitimate function of the federal government.

"It is a legitimate function of art to provoke debate and sometimes to express controversial ideas," the artists wrote in a letter to The Guardian.

To be sure, killing terrorists is a constitutionally legitimate function of the federal government in a way that delivering babies is not.