Lastly, to give his comments legitimacy, he included a quote, which reads

Moreover, talks with the regime would give rise to substantial legitimacy problems in the West.

This requires debt mutualization, fiscal transfers between member states, and, of course, federal institutions to give all of this legitimacy.

The United Nations is the only vehicle that can help us attain those solutions and give legitimacy to our actions.

Instead of insisting on what the Palestinians cannot give, Israel should focus on what is essential the international legitimacy of its borders.

This would give the president greater legitimacy and independence, while reducing fears that he might be tempted to follow the agenda of a particular party.

Legitimacy and Elections

Only this will give a Morsi administration the necessary legitimacy and capacity to carry out a joint transition with the military for a true change of regime.

Finance s Crisis of Legitimacy

Nothing less than a full fledged peace agreement that meets the fundamental aspirations of Palestinian nationalism is likely to give him the popular legitimacy needed to confront the radicals.

Legitimacy and validity of documents

So legitimacy is more than legality.

Political Islam s Loss of Democratic Legitimacy

How can America recover international legitimacy?

The legitimacy question is particularly problematic if the ruler s biography or charisma is closely tied to the legitimacy of the regime.

Legitimacy and stability are inseparable in practice, because maintaining stability in the absence of legitimacy would ultimately require Tiananmen style repression.

That has considerably reduced the Council's legitimacy.

The first is the growing shift in the Middle East, and elsewhere, from rejection of Israel s legitimacy to rejection of Zionism s legitimacy.

Morsi, the question is not whether you have lost your legitimacy. The question is how many times have you lost your legitimacy?

Legitimacy is not based on the give and take, the necessary compromises, and the wheeling and dealing that form the basis of an economic concept of politics such as that which underpins liberal democracy.

Not anymore the experts have lost their legitimacy.

It lacks legitimacy and its members are unknown.

This process facilitates systemic change and political legitimacy.

Universality contributes to legitimacy, but in the end, I think legitimacy rises or falls on the basis of whether an international body delivers or not.

Without this orchestrated paranoia, the Kims have no legitimacy.

The fairness of the competition improves perceptions of legitimacy.

The regime s international legitimacy is equally in a shambles.

The legitimacy of the three last daughters was disputed.

But the legitimacy of any international military action that goes beyond immediate self defense requires broad international approval and action without legitimacy is bound to fail.

In the last sentence, after international legitimacy , insert and legality .

Citizens, unsurprisingly, complained about the declining legitimacy of EU institutions.

But what really matters is legitimacy and informed public opinion.

This would have given institutional legitimacy to his private views.

But its legitimacy cracks as soon as a crisis erupts.

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

As a result, the ANC s monopoly on legitimacy is loosening.

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

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

Fulfilling those criteria would add legitimacy for continued permanent status.

That restricts the representativeness, efficiency and legitimacy of the Council.

Thus, the legitimacy of Israel s right to exist remains an open question. Indeed, never before has the question of legitimacy been so fundamental to a conflict between nations.

Without legitimacy, no government can rule with any sense of confidence.

The legitimacy of a violent counterattack has never been in doubt.

The first transition did not manage to gather broad popular legitimacy.

As a result, no one doubts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas s legitimacy.