Sentence examples for would be illegitimate from inspiring English sources
To have anyone else leading the coalition would be illegitimate.
In them, he alleged that the election was rigged and suggested that a loss on 8 November would be illegitimate.
The Tories do this when they say the party they expect to come second – Labour – would be illegitimate.
The SNP does it when they say a party with little or no support in Scotland would be illegitimate.
A clear majority of Iraqis believed he had earned the right to form a government — and that a government without him would be illegitimate.
Finebaum's callers, who had insisted that a title game without at least one S.E.C. team would be illegitimate, stepped back from the ledge and returned to bragging.
For Labour to take advantage of this would not be illegitimate, but simply a reflection of British democracy.Nor even would the SNP, in or near power, be able to carry out quite the wrecking job David Cameron, the Tory prime minister, predicts for it.
For instance, I might ask: "Why do you think its looking blue to you gives you a reason for thinking it is blue?" Or I might ask: "Couldn't you be mistaken in believing it looks blue to you?" The latter question might irritate you, but it would not be illegitimate.
"In older operas there would be an illegitimate child or difference of social classes," said Wuorinen.
A Labour source said Corbyn was "sneaking in Green party members by the back door" and that a Corbyn surge would be "completely illegitimate and on a par [with], if not worse than, the Militant infiltration in the 80s".
Its key objective is to use the vociferous campaigning of the press – no doubt amplifying interventions from friends in the City – to argue that any negotiations between parties would be democratically illegitimate, without first putting the Conservatives into power, even (or especially) if Labour and the Liberal Democrats could between them muster a majority of both votes and Commons seats.
