Similar words: legitimate, illegitimate, legit, grimace, legacy, legible, illegible, paraplegic. Meaning: [lɪ'dʒɪtɪməsɪ] n. 1. lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law 2. undisputed credibility.
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31 But Cooper argues that if major Internet providers go along with the plan, it will undermine the legitimacy of the extremists.
32 The payment was a symbolic expression of the legitimacy of the marriage and of the value that was attached to it.
33 Notice that the principle of contextual plausibility allows legitimacy to expressions which arise in the contrived contexts of the classroom.
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34 No matter who takes office as president next January, the legitimacy of his election will be in doubt.
35 But potential obstacles can not be allowed to attack the legitimacy or undermine the potential feasibility of a new state.
36 At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.
37 These dominant ideas become reflected in the concrete features of the social structure, giving them legitimacy and reproducing them.
38 The lack of a moral mandate threatens the regulatory agency's legitimacy as an enforcement authority.
39 During the campaign against uranium mining, the legitimacy of the central state was constantly challenged.
40 But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.
41 They determine the conditions of legitimacy of the authority and the limits of its rightful power.
42 Its legitimacy was not based on electoral success but on its revolutionary principles and antecedents.
43 First, it may appear as if the legitimacy of an authority rests on its greater expertise.
44 Mr Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer and moderate nationalist, has continued to question the tribunal's legitimacy.
45 Furthermore, there was a challenge to the legitimacy of the strike from within the leadership of the working class.
46 And yet he has not yet been able to put his legitimacy on a firm basis.
47 As a consequence, the government starts out with a legitimacy based on the will of the people.
48 It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today.
49 Will the West undermine the legitimacy of the regimes it has just saved from the storm?
50 These two characteristics are control over an independent source of taxation and the legitimacy conveyed by popular election of the local council.
51 The status of legitimacy puts obligations on the members of the domestic unit to provide care for the child.
52 Like many other minority organisations, we can refute their legitimacy in adopting this guise.
53 Through good works they sought to undermine the state's political legitimacy.
54 Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
55 The pressures of demand management and legitimacy therefore produced social democratic welfare policies at home.
56 Political consent can not be obtained in a community where a large minority deny the legitimacy of the state.
57 They sought legitimacy and a political outlet to match their enormous economic power.
58 But reasons of identification and self-definition can not by themselves establish the legitimacy of an authority.
59 Now he is giving himself the chance to be chosen by direct election again, thus gaining a mantle of legitimacy.
60 These contradictory roles create a fiscal and legitimacy crisis for the state, which will ultimately he overthrown by the working class.
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