Sentence examples for whether it is legitimate from inspiring English sources
"Whether it is legitimate and credible, I think, is primarily for the Iraqi people to decide," he said.
In fact, a debate is under way among Palestinians over whether it is legitimate to attack Israelis outside what is known in shorthand as '67 land.
But now, various factors have brought about a resurgence of German pride and a new discussion of whether it is legitimate to be a patriot.
The central issue here is whether it is legitimate to infringe someone's copyright and confidentiality in the name of freedom of expression because of who they are.
To some, the fundamental question is whether it is legitimate for any business to send an unsolicited advertisement by e-mail, just as it can send junk mail to anyone through the postal service.
The source melodies for his New World symphony were borrowed – whether deliberately or absorbed unconsciously – from Native American and African American folk songs, which raised the question of whether it is legitimate to plunder the music of another community's cultural inheritance and place it in an alien and artificial milieu for a very different audience.
I'm less interested in what Wallace's suicide "means"—or even whether it's legitimate to rummage through its aftermath for meaning and more interested in exploring the hunger for meaning itself; and how this hunger might illuminate what readers want from biographies of their literary icons.
Fierce debate has been sparked, therefore, over whether it was legitimate to single out this 14-year-old major debutant.
"You don't want to be given any reason, whether it's legitimate or not," Torre said.
"And rather than wasting time debating whether it's legitimate," he added, referring to his former colleagues, "the key is to recognize that it's affecting what they do".
But in the opening question of tonight's debate — basically, whether it was legitimate to go after Mr. Gingrich on questions of his character — Mr. Santorum gave a muddled response.
