Sentence examples for valid legitimate from inspiring English sources

"Unless there's a valid, legitimate and compelling public purpose, I don't know why the government owns so much of this land," said Romney.

"These sales at the end of 1999 are valid and legitimate," Ms. Soutus said.

Mr. Lieberman undermines his own party's valid and legitimate right to dissent over this ill-conceived war.

Mr. Clement, whose office did not respond to an interview request, said his efforts to promote tourism and business in his district were "valid and legitimate".

A spokesman for Mr Clegg said he would "watch the debate with interest" on what was a "perfectly valid and legitimate debate for a party".

If these two Times executives had valid and legitimate reasons for not responding to your inquiries, they owed you and their readers an explanation for their inability to respond.

The jury was denied information about the case that was available to everybody else in the country – not irrelevant information, not prejudicial information, but valid and legitimate information to which they should have had access.

Other ethical viewpoints could be considered, such as animal rights arguments, narrative ethics, or evolutionary ethics that would bring to light other valid and legitimate concerns and approaches.

Without an awareness of the distortions about the scientific enterprise perpetuated in creationist literature, students may falsely believe that creationists and intelligent design advocates present valid and legitimate critiques of evolutionary theory, uncritically accepting the "science" that reinforces their particular belief system.

In America a margin of even 1 vote constitutes a valid and legitimate win.

Currently, I'm queer, but this doesn't make my past any less valid or legitimate.