Egyptian political scientist Mahmoud Hamad wrote that, prior to 1956, Nasser had consolidated control over Egypt's military and civilian bureaucracies, but it was only after the canal's nationalization that he gained near-total popular legitimacy and firmly established himself as the "charismatic leader" and "spokesman for the masses not only in Egypt, but all over the Third World".
Even in the books, there are a lot of doubts about Aegon's legitimacy, and totally excluding him from the show appears to confirm that he's either fake or a total non-factor.
The legitimacy of adding up items to generate total dimension scores was tested by examination of item means, standard deviations and corrected item-total correlation within each dimension.
Scaling assumptions were explored to examine the legitimacy of summing item scores to generate total scale scores, according to a series of criteria [ 15, 31].
The ordinal nature of rating scale response categories challenges the legitimacy of summing individual item scores into total scores, as well as their interpretability [ 3, 4, 34].
Patients in PHC have some acceptance of rationing [ 20, 40, 41], and the legitimacy of policy decisions depends less on total consensus than on procedural fairness and transparency [ 42].
Jonathan Cook pointed out in a recent article: "The Islamic trusts have no legitimacy among Palestinian Muslims in Israel, nearly one-fifth of the country's total population, let alone among Palestinians in the occupied territories.
But he treaded carefully in the face of the ultraconservative Wahhabi clerics who hold near total sway over society and, in return, give the Al Saud family's rule religious legitimacy.
Legitimacy of government also matters.
