Legitimacy in example sentence

With the traditional institutions of rule thoroughly discredited by the war, the vacuum of legitimacy would be filled by powerful demagogues and populist dictatorships: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”

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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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