Legitimacy in example sentence

Concepts of justice and law, legitimacy and dignity, protection from oppressive rule, and participation in community affairs are found in every society; the challenge facing human rights advocates is to identify the common denominators, and not throw up their hands at the impossibility of universalism.

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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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