Sentence examples for recognize as legitimate from inspiring English sources

This liberal-democratic order is the only one we in the West recognize as legitimate today, and we owe it primarily to Hobbes.

What is more, it must recognize as legitimate the ius ad bellum claimed by all groups that have successfully constituted themselves as political communities.

The 'liberal position' he suggests demands of the State that it should recognize as legitimate only the two grounds for coercion just mentioned.

That means before any discussions would commence, the U.S. would have to recognize as legitimate, Iran's reach into Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Court's embrace of balancing tests tied to "reasonable expectations" of privacy that "society" is "prepared to recognize as legitimate" has resulted in an an expanding zone of government intrusion.

There was no method of succession ultimately recognized as legitimate, no tradition of loyal opposition.

If Mr. Micheletti and his backers expect the next Honduran government to be recognized as legitimate by the international community, it must restore Mr. Zelaya to office now.

That means no sex outside marriage, and in Mormon doctrine, same-sex marriage is not recognized as legitimate — even in states where it is legal.

In any given era, those who minister to the mentally ill — doctors or shamans or priests — inadvertently help to select which symptoms will be recognized as legitimate.

By title, Mr. Massoud was defense minister in the deposed government of the aging Mr. Rabbani, which was driven out of Kabul in 1996 but is recognized as legitimate by most of the world.

Faizabad, the biggest city in Badakhshan Province, is the latest refuge of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who heads the feckless government that is recognized as legitimate by most of the world.