"If these council members now degrade themselves by lining their own pockets and jumping into the lap of the mayor, they will have forfeited that 20 years' process of obtaining legitimacy and will slip back, in the view of the body politic, into being hacks, which is what they were always thought of," Mr. Emery said.
Without prior guidelines on disaster resilient construction technology; locally developed and approved technologies have been obtaining legitimacy in suburbs and rural settlements and reflected in almost of the dwellings as local architecture irrespective of ethnic origin and cultural descent.
"No matter what you call it," he added, "Hamas will obtain legitimacy".
If the regime wanted to obtain legitimacy, it first had to mobilize the medical professional effectively.
It is not sufficient because it is well-known that states tend to be the worst perpetrators in matters of human rights and there is thus need for an independent international standard of minimal justice to obtain legitimacy.
This helped obtain legitimacy in the eyes of key stakeholders and perhaps also functioned as a mechanism to exit those members who no longer fit the requirements of the organization.
While it's true that this would result in an initial upfront cost, the whole reason CSR programs were created to begin with was to obtain legitimacy and the appearance of good corporate citizenship.
And, as a reading of Sikan indicates, challenging popular Sufism also means challenging the authority of the custodians who obtained legitimacy, wealth, and power from their control of the shrines and promises to link the Taliban to a populist, anti-elitist message that may find resonance in the impoverished areas of Pakistan far beyond its Pashtun base.
Inevitably, collecting and curating art has also become a fashionable way of obtaining cultural legitimacy.
"In reality, a new government was appointed without obtaining electoral legitimacy, with neither all factions of the Iraqi people nor all Iraqi political powers fairly represented," the cleric said.
One far-left deputy minister suggested snap elections as a way out, by obtaining public legitimacy for difficult decisions to secure aid.
