legitimacy

In short, Maduro is now facing dual crises: One economic, the other of legitimacy.

They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.

At first blush, this practice may have the appearance of legitimacy in cases where detainees refused to eat or drink.

He turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy.

So while the poor sound quality was aggravating, it was also a signal of some weird legitimacy.

The legitimacy of this appeal is admitted whenever it is allowed that our judgments ought to be conformable to fact.

Both were nevertheless overpowered by the sense of their legitimacy and sacred aloofness.

Napoleon knew the mysterious power throughout Europe of that charmed word "legitimacy."

Louis, moreover, had but recently illustrated the force of a new environment under the notion of legitimacy.

His rancor against the Empress was something horrible, and went to the length of denying the legitimacy of the Prince Imperial.