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Civil-society organizations do not gain power through elections (legitimate or otherwise), but through reaching the broader world.
Unlike the FARC, the ELN has engaged in the peace process and may soon follow the AUC back into legitimate civilian life.
For the international community, decoupling two legitimate concerns – human rights and management of refugee flows – may be the only way to address either successfully.
Capital controls and fiscal incentives will keep legitimate private capital at home and promote domestic investment.
But more than British and European interests will be affected by the outcome, so it is both legitimate and appropriate for other parties to weigh in.
Civic education can be crucial in helping young people to manage disagreements and recognize other citizens as legitimate opponents in democratic conflicts.
I told them that we considered the TNC to be our new legitimate political interlocutors in Libya and were ready to support them, but that in return we expected the TNC to work towards the best standards of transparent democratic government.
Instead of vainly trying to influence May’s hardline stance in the negotiations, the new priority should be to restart a rational debate about Britain’s relationship with Europe and to convince the public that this debate is democratically legitimate.
China, the ministry vowed, would “take all appropriate measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights.”
Who now decides what is legitimate and what is illicit in Islam?
This has created an environment of fear in which governments are unwilling to import and doctors do not prescribe legitimate medications, owing to the widespread concern that some could be diverted and they could be perceived and prosecuted as drug dealers.
And this is where legitimate debate begins, because immediate action to save jobs does not necessarily help.
America undoubtedly needs more allies to bring Iraq's chaos under control and to build an Iraqi state that is seen as legitimate both by Iraqis and the world.
On the face of it, democratic self-defense seems a legitimate goal.
Third, they must support the emergence of a legitimate Afghan government that is not, unlike the current government, seen as corrupt and ineffectual by its citizens.
Preserving the privacy of victims is a legitimate goal; but broad media bans in Turkey have become a serious concern.
There are legitimate concerns about the competitiveness of Europe’s agricultural sector, for example, and about the technical challenges of harmonizing a long list of norms and standards.
But, legitimate as that question is, it is just a minor aspect of the debate that is needed about the World Bank’s role in the twenty-first century.
How legitimate is this model?
Civilians may not be targeted; the principle of proportionality requires the avoidance of excessive force in pursuing a legitimate military objective; and prisoners must be treated humanely.
The older summits (the G-7 or, with the addition of Russia, the G-8), as well as the G-7 finance ministers’ meetings, were no longer legitimate.
The question is a legitimate one, because when African initiatives fail, they usually fail because of a lack of political will to follow through on commitments and declarations.
The report also states explicitly that decriminalization of marijuana consumption is a legitimate, reasonable, and feasible option, though it does not recommend such a policy.
Limitations on autonomy and privacy cannot be justified unless they meet the criteria for any restriction of a basic right, namely legitimate purpose, proportionality, necessity, and non-discrimination.
While protecting health is a legitimate government purpose, criminalizing drug use to protect people from harming themselves does not meet the criteria of necessity or proportionality.”
Many times, alleged contradictions are simply ignoble pretexts by autocrats who seek to legitimate evil by pointing out the "otherness" of their cultures.
And yet calls for denationalization have proliferated across the West in recent years, as many politicians have come to regard it as a legitimate counterterrorism policy.
Advocates of discriminatory measures often charge their opponents with stifling legitimate criticism of Israel.
As a policy, the Holocaust was premised on denial – the physical denial of any legitimate religious, racial, or political difference within Nazi Germany.
The Glienicker Gruppe argues that a stable monetary union needs a transfer mechanism to help cushion severe economic downturns and a legitimate government to ensure that democracy and the rule of law prevail at all times and in all countries.
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