Sentence examples for somehow legitimate from inspiring English sources
The phrase "somehow legitimate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something is considered legitimate in a vague or uncertain manner. Example: "Despite the controversy surrounding the decision, the committee deemed the proposal somehow legitimate."
"The idea that anyone could deduce from the words of Benedict XVI that it is somehow legitimate, in certain situations, to use condoms to avoid an unwanted pregnancy is completely arbitrary and is in no way justified either by his words or in his thoughts," the statement said.
But it said, "The idea that anyone could deduce from the words of Benedict XVI that it is somehow legitimate, in certain situations, to use condoms to avoid an unwanted pregnancy is completely arbitrary and is in no way justified either by his words or in his thought".
It's the type of event that Europeans are familiar with in World Cup years, as other realms of our culture make a sometimes reluctant concession that football exists, or attempt to recuperate it as somehow legitimate for artistic or academic consideration.
Typically, the point of the distinction is to identify a class of cases in which envy is somehow legitimate or justifiable from another class in which it is not. 5. Thus, for instance, Rawls characterizes the distinction as being between benign envy and "envy proper".
Is popular culture somehow less legitimate to examine than other forms of culture?
"It was all about immigration," others are insisting, as if concern about immigration is somehow not legitimate.
Inside the BBC its journalists will now admit, there was a view at the time that the Thatcher governments did not have to be taken seriously, were somehow not legitimate.
Alperovitch argued, as many have, that any confusion about voting rolls or the count itself created by cyber incursions will "help create a narrative the day after election that the vote was manipulated, that it was somehow not legitimate".
We wonder why the JIF is calculated to three significant decimal places, but then realize that besides making journals easier to rank, a number calculated to 1/1000 feels somehow more legitimate, more precise – more scientific – than a mere whole number.
Although Mr. Lee might believe that when dealing with a wireless connection the invisible nature of the borrowing somehow makes it legitimate, it is in fact akin to simply walking into the neighbor's home and taking the cup of sugar without permission.
They were desperate to have me seen legitimate somehow, so that's where it came from.
