Sentence examples for treated as legitimate from inspiring English sources

How do we make sense of moral standards that are treated as legitimate in one domain, and not in the other?

And, for the Chinese bidders, it sounds like they've been stung by the sense that they were not treated as legitimate prospects.

Those with dementia and Alzheimer's are allegedly being treated as legitimate targets – as long as they agree to the call and are able to answer a few basic questions over the phone, the newspaper reported.

Girding for criticism that CBS is blurring the line between entertainment and news, executives pointed out that plot twists were being treated as legitimate news by other media organizations throughout the nation.

So when a leader takes power and is initially treated as legitimate — and Mr. Maduro was generally accepted when he took office in 2013 — it's very difficult for him or her to lose it.

Like Adam Smith, they simply thought that if the pursuit of private interest were treated as legitimate (not sinful) and were properly regulated (crucial), you could create a society in which military valor was less prized than business acumen, in which capturing a market was more attractive than looting a village.

In her pamphlet she asserted not only that women have the same rights as men but also that children born outside of marriage should be treated as fairly as "legitimate" children in matters of inheritance.

Carter has once more insinuated himself into the morass of the Middle East, last month urging that Hamas be treated as a legitimate political actor.

The mere restriction of liberty or of property rights cannot of itself be denominated 'public welfare,' and treated as a legitimate object of the police power; for such restriction is the very thing that is inhibited by the Amendment.

Perhaps if we focused more on teaching responsible drinking habits than on enacting and enforcing easily circumvented liquor laws, alcohol would be treated as a legitimate supplement to recreational events rather than a seductive forbidden fruit.

Leonardo grew up on his father's family's estate, where he was treated as a "legitimate" son and received the usual elementary education of the day: reading, writing, and arithmetic.