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Having grown up in a China that is now accepted as a legitimate great power, the new generation of leaders will be more impatient about China resuming its place as the paramount power in Asia.
Past conquest cannot be a legitimate basis for current rule.
What are the alternatives, if any?Different experts, studies, and organizations adopt contrasting but often equally legitimate and scientifically-founded perspectives on these questions.
“The Church acknowledges the legitimate role of profit as an indication that a business is functioning well.
Repressive regimes would find it harder to borrow, which would, in turn, make it harder for them to repress their people, and make it easier and cheaper for responsible and legitimate governments to secure important funding when they need it.
But to his constituents, emulating the racist politics of Europe’s far right was a legitimate exhortation to turn out.
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
As a result, citizens are willing to respect what Max Weber called the state’s “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.”
The grotesque coupling of legitimate solidarity with Palestine and anti-Jewish invective seems to have forged a politically correct form of anti-Semitism – one that, 70 years after the Holocaust, is raising the specter of Kristallnacht over Europe’s Jewish communities.
This does not square with the global vilification of Israel that is drowning out legitimate criticism.
But that is not because these international institutions are perceived as effective and legitimate.
The only legitimate concern over the AU’s decision is the motive behind it.
To be sure, Russia has legitimate security interests in what has been called its “near abroad.”
Of course, if the international economic environment had been more favourable, and if there were not so much legitimate concern about declining purchasing power, the French might have shown greater indulgence towards their young president.
The sooner this happens, the more difficult it will be for the separatists to claim that they alone are the legitimate authors of Chechnya's fate.
This tendency prevents Africa from participating as a legitimate and coequal member of the global community.
It is vital to remove non-tariff barriers, such as localized rules and restrictions not based on scientifically legitimate safety or health concerns, despite political pressure to maintain or tighten them.
The truth is that the country is facing difficult changes, zigzagging through complicated negotiations among competing and legitimate interests.
The large numbers of human subjects in research are an outgrowth of the legitimate need for more and better health care throughout our ever-lengthening lifespans.
Without a legitimate president -- and by cancelling the elections, Yeltsin would certainly risk forfeiting claims to legitimacy -- any successor (a prospect that must be weighed, given the president's suspect health) would be even less legitimate.
Ukraine’s business barons want not only to develop their empires within the safety of a legitimate free-market framework, but also to invest in the EU.
Instead, the new US administration should help to create a broad multilateral framework for the region, one aimed at building a genuine consensus on the goal of achieving Afghan stability by addressing the legitimate sources of Pakistan’s insecurity while strengthening opposition to disruptive Pakistani behavior.
The new European populists are parlaying legitimate frustration into a misguided set of policies that can only produce more of the same.
Implicitly or explicitly, people take the side of the victims, contribute by sending money to them, declare even suicide bombers legitimate, and move ever further away from support for and defense of Israel.
But America’s questionable means of satisfying its legitimate security concerns are certainly less damaging for Europe in the long run than is Chinese industrial espionage.
But Francis’s words suggest that it might be a legitimate option to cut out God Himself.
If the coming elections are conducted in a free, fair, and transparent manner, the West should help the DRC’s elected leader to fulfill a legitimate mandate freely given by the Congolese people.
Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.
In particular, Iran is a fount of moral corruption that spearheads extremism and halts reform, crushing the legitimate protest of its own citizens and acting against the brave Syrians now fighting for their freedom.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has labeled it a “radicalizer,” because it “destroys faith in legitimate authority.”
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