Sentence examples for test of legitimacy from inspiring English sources
The examining committee agreed that he could try again if he had three papers published in peer-reviewed journals, a common litmus test of legitimacy, Dr. Jackiw said.
In response, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams countered that a self-appointed council "will not pass the test of legitimacy in the communion".
"Surely a test of legitimacy that should be applied to whatever Westminster government is formed after this election cannot simply be that it is the largest party in England," she said.
Provoking a fresh confrontation with the Conservatives, she said: "Surely a test of legitimacy that should be applied to whatever Westminster government is formed after this election cannot simply be that it is the largest party in England.
A: As Peter Riddell, of the Institute of Government, has pointed out, the only valid democratic test of legitimacy in Britain's first-past-the-post system is winning the confidence of a majority of MPs in the Commons.
He said fair use of stop and search was a "litmus test of legitimacy" for the police, and his report said that for ethnic minority Britons, use of the power was "a symbol of their perception that there is a culture of unlawful discrimination within the police".
But on a Sunday that offered tests of legitimacy for several front-running N.F.C. teams, the Buccaneers failed theirs, losing to the Baltimore Ravens, 17-10.
But the two pictures also look forward to the great issue of the nineteenth century: the test of popular legitimacy.
George W. Bush said during the campaign that the United States would never submit to an "international test" of the legitimacy of its policies.
A modern legal test of the legitimacy of proposed restrictions on freedom of speech was stated in the opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenk v.
While President Khatami's re-election seems certain, his supporters see the voting as a test of their legitimacy against hard-liners who have resisted demands for more political and social freedoms.
