But its legitimacy cracks as soon as a crisis erupts.

Second, the government loses legitimacy and the support of its citizens.

As their legitimacy and funding diminish, so does their effectiveness.

Third, the G 20 must address its own legitimacy deficit.

Contemporary democracies base their legitimacy on ensuring both political and social rights.

On the surface, the banks remain powerful, yet their legitimacy continues to crumble.

First, Rowhani s victory has delegitimized the policy of resistance that Jalili championed.

In Croatia, we have found that direct elections for local youth councils have been important in strengthening legitimacy.

The main problem facing a military operation in Iran is the need to ensure its legitimacy.

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It is a policy that has proved to be ineffective, and that is illegal under international law because it targets Israeli civilians.

Yet, because of that anomaly, Europe suffers from a grave deficit of legitimacy and presence internationally.

For without a common political identity on which to base social solidarity, redistribution of wealth by the welfare state loses its legitimacy.

It is, however, clear that coordination efforts are limited by the degree of respect accorded to the Court's independence, the Court's independence being the basis of its legitimacy.

We now have a Palestinian leadership legitimized by elections, one that appears to be opposed to using terrorism as a tool to achieve political aims.

Nevertheless, if targeted sanctions are not properly designed and implemented, their legitimacy can be compromised and their usefulness questioned.

Unlike Egypt, however, whoever takes power in Libya will not necessarily inherit poor economic conditions that could threaten their legitimacy and undermine their popularity.

Tunisia shows that no government that has lost its legitimacy and is supported only by bayonets is sustainable in the long term.

To restore the credibility of the human rights machinery and to best combine its efficiency with legitimacy, concrete steps must be taken to reduce selective approaches.

The reaction of Boot, and others of his persuasion, points to a genuine dilemma that always occurs in authoritarian systems that use some semblance of democracy to bolster their legitimacy. What are opposition candidates to do when they are asked to take part in elections that they know they cannot win, or that, even when they can win, will give them only minimal authority?

By contrast, Milosevic has taken advantage of the ICTY s procedures to delay his trial, while challenging its jurisdiction and legitimacy.

Israel needs allies, because its ultimate security depends on its legitimacy nearly as much as on its deterrence capability.

Though political parties have not been legalized, they are nonetheless active in parliament and public life.

When regimes lose legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens, it is not reasonable to derive one s information mainly from that regime s servants and sycophants.

For the next seven years, Solidarity fought for re legalization, building the biggest underground network of resistance Europe had seen since Hitler s war.

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, emerged in the early twentieth century as boxing gradually attained legitimacy and became a regulated, sanctioned sport.

At the same time, the governance structure of multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund must be reformed, in order to bolster their legitimacy in emerging markets.

Institutions are legitimized in part by their effectiveness, and the EU must recover its authority to defend common interests and harmonize them with national concerns.

It is because the Saudi royal family derives its legitimacy from a strict form of Sunni Islam and doubts the loyalty of its Shia population that the Kingdom has turned on Hezbollah.

The idea of a just war, legitimized by a justa causa (just cause), though scorned for many years, is thus back in vogue.

China s ruling Communist Party needed Obama s unequivocal endorsement of China s increasingly important international role in order to buttress its domestic legitimacy.

The origins of successor justice in the war means that the debate over its legitimacy overlaps with the broader schism over the intervention itself.

Add to this the fact that the Arab world s nationalist regimes, which have calcified into militarized dictatorships, lost their popular legitimacy long ago.

We are convinced that they contribute to further transparency and better understanding of the Committee's role in the global fight against terrorism and they increase its universal legitimacy.

The first has fallen away, its accompanying social structures superseded by industrialization, urbanization, and feminization of the workforce, while the oft seen link with despotism has delegitimized the second.

The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non state actors have now largely filled.

Only through such efforts will China be able to increase its international legitimacy, thereby minimizing the risk of future conflict.

The vulnerability of the regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, which rely on rigged elections and a repressive state apparatus, reflects their lack of any acceptable source of legitimacy.

One expert emphasized that the primary motive of PSCs was profit, not humanitarian in nature and that humanitarian activities often provided a cloak of legitimacy for otherwise doubtful activities.

The insurgents remain capable, adaptable and intent on carrying out attacks against Iraqi civilians, officials and security forces, with the goal of destabilizing and de legitimizing the Iraqi Government in order to pursue their own goals.

Fourth, while all this has been happening, the institutions set up after World War II to create global rules and to preside over their implementation have lost much of their political and economic sway and legitimacy.

In addition, the institutions created in the days following WWII no longer seem effective enough to meet the new challenges of the global economy, and thus have lost some of their legitimacy.

As a political model, Chavism is strongly based on nationalism, so that, Bush or no Bush, its legitimacy requires a growing anti Americanism.

Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations most basic needs safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.

The final lesson is that the big showdowns between democracy and big bankers are still to come both in the United States and in continental Europe. On the surface, the banks remain powerful, yet their legitimacy continues to crumble.