The controversial visit was also used by the "Contras" as a form of propaganda to give their organization moral legitimacy.

China's leaders have forever struggled to define their moral legitimacy.

But the opposition did not want to admit the possibility that any position other than theirs could have any moral legitimacy.

The use of legitimate defense by a military force is considered grave and therefore subject to rigorous considerations of moral legitimacy.

At moments, none the less, abolitionist conventions challenged the moral, though not the constitutional, legitimacy of parliament.

But liberalism paid the price of losing its own moral legitimacy.

This new development framework leads to moral legitimacy and social justice.

If that's true, then we don't have the moral legitimacy to govern this state.

She thereby "appropriates the moral legitimacy of the suffering slaves."

Whatever the moral or artistic legitimacy of Conried's decision, it proved phenomenally profitable.