Mo Ibrahim

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.

Sudanese Businessman

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

American Statesman

Peter DeFazio

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

American Politician

Shelby Steele

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

American Author

Howard Rheingold

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

American Critic

Enrico Letta

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Italian Politician

Jenna Wortham

Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.

American Journalist

John Singleton

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

American Director

Michael Giacchino

Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.

American Composer

Henry Paulson

When you look at territorial disputes, there are good arguments on any sides. I think it's important that we don't take sides on legitimacy.

American Public Servant

Legitimacy refers to something being within the law and socially accepted.

Legal Acceptance

Sometimes 'legitimacy' includes moral or ethical acceptance, not just legal.

Beyond Law

Legitimacy can mean general support for a leader's right to rule.

Ruler's Acceptance

Legitimacy of rulers was often tied to bloodlines or divine rights in the past.

Historical Context

In professions, legitimacy means actions are consistent with accepted standards.

Approval in Actions

Public opinion can greatly influence the perceived legitimacy of actions or roles.

Public Perception

In philosophy, legitimacy involves having a sound, logical basis for beliefs or arguments.

Logical Defense

In academic contexts, questioning legitimacy helps refine ideas and theories.

Academic Debate

 Many countries in the, they need legitimacy. To get legitimacy, governments often need to deliver things like primary education, primary health, roads, build hospitals and clinics. If the government's fiscal survival depends on it having to raise money from its own people,

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 and pretty soon, they devolve into gangs over time. Other gangs come in, mafias come in, and they offer to protect people from the other criminals and from the police. Unlike the state, the criminals often try to buy legitimacy. They give charity. They solve disputes.

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 sought to discredit this theory because it challenged the legitimacy of their rule. In fact, the government actively encouraged historians to produce accounts that disputed the city's African origins. Over time, however, an overwhelming body of evidence mounted,

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 and give them perceived legitimacy. You could message a few local journalists asking whether these rumors are true and express your concerns. By the time an article comes out debunking the rumors, people’s experiences of the truth will have become so warped

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 How Sisyphean this task was of mending, and yet aware of that complexity, humbled by it, he wasn't paralyzed by it. And we as citizens, as we go through this experience of the kind of, the crisis of confidence, crisis of competence, crisis of legitimacy,

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 And as we search for the truth about government, we should keep Ambrogio's work, not a lie but an allegory, in our collective mind's eye. During Lorenzetti's time, the political legitimacy of Italian city-states was often on very shaky ground.

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 if it motivates enough people to change their thinking and actions. And so the sixth source of power is numbers, lots of humans. A vocal mass of people creates power by expressing collective intensity of interest and by asserting legitimacy.

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 But the legitimacy of the campaign is based on their diverse points of view. Over a decade ago, I had a comfortable future working for an investment bank. I was as far removed from the world of civil society diplomacy as you can imagine.

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 will make an awful lot of money now are they good guys or bad guys you tell me let's not lose sight of the legitimacy of collecting let's not lose sight of the fact that dealers care around the world dealers collectors museum

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 Such a system is operationally rigid, politically closed, and morally illegitimate. Well, the assumptions are wrong. The opposites are true. Adaptability, meritocracy, and legitimacy are the three defining characteristics