Sentence examples for real legitimacy from inspiring English sources

"Real legitimacy is not accorded by organizations or foreign officials," he said.

"Merrill's marketing gave LJM2 real legitimacy," said David Snow, a spokeman for PrivateEquityCentral.net, a trade publication.

What is needed instead is a new social contract that reconciles Libya's factions and produces a government with real legitimacy.

The political mainstream needs to ask more fundamental questions of itself and its ability to govern with real legitimacy.

"De Bethune has gained a real legitimacy in haute horlogerie," said Fabienne Lupo, managing director and chairwoman of the foundation, in a telephone interview from Geneva.

But, compared with the alternative of a second chamber with real power and real legitimacy, it's a sad end to the hopes and promises of the first term.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

"It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU … We need to recognise that in the way the EU does business".

I share the stated belief at the heart of it: 'It is national parliaments which are and will remain the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.' "The negotiation should stick to this fundamental question.

If the only conclusion the public will be allowed to entertain is that it's all worth it, then the public's verdict cannot in the end confer real moral legitimacy on the dubious activities of Mr Alexander's covert minions.

But lacking royal legitimacy and real power, a president must use the bully pulpit to be effective.