Legitimacy in example sentence

As he put it, when the international community confronts a clear case for the use of force to protect a population from its own government, but the Security Council is divided, “the relationship between legality and legitimacy will continue to be awkward.”

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The problem with this proposition is that the Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more authority amongst the Chinese than is true with any Western state.

We need to begin from the position that our knowledge, our power, our legitimacy is limited.

What is the legitimacy of diplomacy, of the the solution we devise as diplomats if they cannot be reflected and understood by also these broader forces of societies that we now very loosely call groups?

The rediscovery of the legitimacy of random selection in politics has become so common lately, that there's simply too many examples to talk about.

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