Sentence examples for the less legitimate from inspiring English sources

"We're at a point where the more it looks like the new Iraqi government is led or directed by the United States, the less legitimate it will look," said a prominent European diplomat.

However, the more society becomes aware of the remarkable potential we have in our hands — the more we hear about post-Enlightenment programs that are achieving their goals — the more we can make sense of why they are working — the less legitimate it will be for those with vested interests to defend the status quo.

Among the less legitimate schools, parents' foreign-fever can lead to some unsavory practices.

Still, no matter how many seats the clerical establishment gains, it will be a Pyrrhic victory -- the regime is going to be far more vulnerable to the growing dissatisfaction of the Iranian public and less legitimate to the rest of the world.

If, as a result, the public then views the Supreme Court as less legitimate, well, who cares what the public thinks?

If standards are not useful or accepted, the organisations are less legitimate, and if standards seek to receive acceptance, these must prove that they are "morally right, beneficial for the users, and the like" [50].

If warfare is the (more or less) legitimate use of force in place of traditional political pressure, Gerasimov asks if it is possible to use subversive political pressure to achieve the objectives of a war.

If standards are not useful or accepted, the organisations are less legitimate, and if standards seek to receive acceptance, these must prove that they are "morally right, beneficial for the users, and the like" [ 50].

The Syrian government is even less legitimate than was the corrupt South Vietnamese government that the United States propped up for so long, but Putin will not relax his embrace of Bashar al-Assad.

It's true, but the criticism is no less legitimate than when members of the Tea Party swarmed town halls in 2009 at the height of the health care debate.

"I think when we made the decision to go into Iraq that was less legitimate" in the eyes of much of the Muslim world, he said.