"legitimacy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "In reality, a new government was appointed without obtaining electoral legitimacy, with neither all factions of the Iraqi people nor all Iraqi political powers fairly represented," the cleric said.
- A weakened Karzai administration, shorn of electoral legitimacy, would represent a major blow to the Western allies who considered to send more troops to fight the Taliban.
- While neither candidate surpassed the 50 percent threshold necessary for electoral legitimacy, public support for them has increased markedly since a similar poll was taken in October.
- National parliamentarians can claim electoral legitimacy in their own right.
- Even the governors and other regional leaders, who will lose their independence and electoral legitimacy when the plan takes effect, have lined up behind Mr. Putin - at least publicly.
- "They think that the only way to unseat the [generals] is to create an alternative institution, a strong parliament with electoral legitimacy."
- On Monday, President Vladimir V. Putin announced he would strip Russia's 89 regions of much of their authority and electoral legitimacy.
- The battle now is between nonelected independence and electoral legitimacy.
- Even the powerless prime minister named to add a veneer of electoral legitimacy to military rule was fired last month for proving insufficiently docile.
- The Supreme Court, courageously and at some cost, did its bit for the Bush administration's electoral legitimacy.
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