Sentence examples for was legitimate only from inspiring English sources

That request came after Bonner's lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld told investigators that a letter from Senior Center Inc. of Charlottesville, Va., was legitimate — only to retract that determination several days later and declare that letter fake, a spokesman for the committee said.

But governments are legitimate only if they recognize and respect the natural law.

Their power is legitimate only if they give reasoned arguments for what they do.

Under the Sixth Amendment, the Supreme Court said last year, a plea is legitimate only if a defendant has had assistance of counsel while considering it.

The panel decided in January that the practice is legitimate only when the participants can show a history of collecting cash payments for "similar advertising" within the last six months.

U.S. (1919): a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a "clear and present danger"—i.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent.

The Court split the difference, ruling that limits on campaign spending are unconstitutional, because they violate the First Amendment, and that limits on campaign contributions are legitimate only if they target one kind of corruption: quid pro quo.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

But the definition is legitimate only if there is one, and only one, being such that nothing greater can be thought than it.

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.

His central doctrine in politics is that a state can be legitimate only if it is guided by the "general will" of its members.