Sentence examples for understood as legitimate from inspiring English sources

"The involvement of the Ka'apor in the defence of their territory against the loggers should be understood as legitimate defence, since the action of the loggers puts their survival at risk," said Alexandre Silva Saraiva, regional superintendent of the federal police.

J. Thompson (2006) argues therefore that they can be understood as legitimate cites of moral responsibility although it is not clear that they have the kinds of agency that we normally associate with moral responsibility.

But cultural change is necessary as well if stereotypes about women's abilities are not to interfere with their participation, if women's needs and interests are to be understood as legitimate claims on democratic power, and if men's dominance in institutions of influence is to be overcome.

There are many wonderful, illuminating reflections in On Immunity: how vaccine refusal in Pakistan and Nigeria can be understood as a legitimate form of anti-colonial resistance; how capitalism has inadvertently limited our imaginations by making us blame it for everything; how metaphors of the body at "war" with bacteria are misleading, and "war" should be left to warmongers.

He also refused to condemn England fans for their involvement in violence, which he asserted could and should be understood as a legitimate form of "self-defence".

He also refused to condemn England fans for their involvement in violence, which he asserted could and should be understood as a legitimate form of "self-defense".

Ultimately, the policing fed into a form of identity among England fans whereby conflict against police and locals was understood as increasingly legitimate and at times even necessary in order to defend themselves and others around them, or otherwise retaliate against these essentially unprovoked attacks.

The few remaining anomalies, he argued, could easily be understood as minor (and legitimate) exceptions to general rules.

Some students of Adorno's work have argued that his account of the role of "sensuous immediacy" can be understood as an attempt to defend a "legitimate anthropomorphism" that comes close to a weak form of animism (Bernstein 2001, 196).

But if we interpret the harm principle this way, then Mill is even further from a libertarian view, at least if libertarianism is understood as the idea that the only legitimate limit on individual liberty is to prevent that individual from acting in ways that harm others.

Here, the new actualist argues that this intuition is legitimate only when it is properly understood as the intuition that no concrete thing could have been an Alien.