Sentence examples for to be illegitimate from inspiring English sources

"He will declare the elections to be illegitimate".

Half of respondents consider the current, internationally recognised authorities to be illegitimate.

His mother was born in 1917 and to be illegitimate in the early 20th century was almost a crime.

In a referendum that Ukrainian authorities and Western governments declared to be illegitimate, residents voted to join Russia on March 16, and Russian Pres.

The international community considers all settlement building in the lands won by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, including East Jerusalem, to be illegitimate and illegal.

One 2010 report predicted that drone operations "could be brought under increased scrutiny, perceived to be illegitimate, openly resisted or undermined".

If 'because' creates an opaque context, then it would be illegitimate to suppose that (8) and (9) entail (10).

Anzaldúa writes, "Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate … my tongue will be illegitimate" (81).

The Tories do this when they say the party they expect to come second – Labour – would be illegitimate.

From this premise, he deduced that the Papal decision to grant Spain title to the Americas was illegitimate.

If "causally sufficient condition" is taken in the weak sense, however, then the inferences from 4 to 5, and from 6 to 7, are illegitimate.