(d) Conceals or withholds the passport or travel document of a third party without a legitimate reason

In Australia and Brazil, providing a legitimate reason for not voting (such as being sick or outside the country) is accepted.

If willing buyers and willing sellers were trading claims happily, then, as long as they were professional investors, there was no legitimate reason to interfere in their markets.

A WIO could encourage transparency on the part of investors, determine when national security is a legitimate reason for prohibiting or limiting investment, and establish a dispute resolution mechanism.

There were legitimate ways to address the economic and political causes of the problem, particularly in democratic societies terrorism could not be justified for any reason, whether religious, political, ideological or of any other type.

A. Usurpation of legitimate commerce

The group now considers these legitimate targets.

Two criteria that could serve as a basis in endeavouring to clarify the meaning of the notion of the object and purpose were the reason that a State concluded a treaty (legitimate exceptions) and the common approach of the parties.

What is legal, they think, is also legitimate.

a monopoly over the use of legitimate force

Nevertheless, international monetary reform remains a legitimate aspiration.

Stopping criminal activity is a legitimate government concern.

Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.

Yet they find it perfectly legitimate to carry on.

This is a legitimate concern for all of us.

Such exploitation has been perpetrated by legitimate nation states.

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So Ukraine now has a legitimate government. Or does it?

Past conquest cannot be a legitimate basis for current rule.

Some of this was legitimate, some of it was excessive.

Puppet states are not recognised as legitimate under international law.

The homeland war was a defensive, just and legitimate war.

No reason specified

There's another reason.

The second reason

Now it turns out this is a legitimate non photoshopped photo.

So the growing power of today s China naturally raises legitimate concerns.

We should have a Council that is representative, legitimate and accountable.

We are convinced that these are ambitious but absolutely legitimate goals.

This formality may frustrate the legitimate expectations of the other parties.

Europe s Lapse of Reason

And there's a reason.

No reason was specified

A Return to Reason

Sometimes reason does prevail.

The reason is simple.

The reason is straightforward.

The reason was simple.

And for no reason!

And the third reason

The reason is obvious.

It will have to accept all the other states in the region as legitimate players with their own legitimate interests as much as it wants to be recognized as such itself.

There are, of course, perfectly legitimate reasons for close Sino Russian relations.

Haiti needs a strong and legitimate government to overcome the challenges ahead.

On the face of it, democratic self defense seems a legitimate goal.