(1) "When I got to hear that NI had called it legit too, by that stage I'd entered 'what the hell' territory and thought I'd just carry on and see where it went, seeing as Twitter had already verified it.
(2) (Not that his prospects for winning were any good – an actual, legit poll has Corbett down 17% with less than a month before Election Day .)
(3) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
(4) We fact-checked, it was all legit …" he trails off.
(5) The choice between pirated and legit content is a combination of ease-of-use, pricing and availability on a given market.
(6) Now, if it was Phoenix, Winnipeg, Edmonton, etc... yeah, legit "argument".
(7) Photograph: Rex Features The 90s hip-hop star who gave us songs like Can't Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit has been in the tech investment game for some time, although he hasn't had much luck.
(8) He reportedly turned down an invitation to host NBC’s Meet the Press , so it’s unlikely that he will want to provide jokes on a more “legit” broadcast, and certainly not one mired in a scandal.
(9) January 10, 2017 “Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing that might or might not be true, without supporting evidence; decide for yourself if it’s legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today.
(10) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
(11) It looks legit to us," CIA spokesperson Marie Harf says in an email.
(12) Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something "meaningful" arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true.
(13) "Totally legal and legit and my accountants and advisers would take care to complete the formalities which included dealing with HMRC.
(14) If you think the very concept of marriage is hot garbage, that’s legit.
(15) Some television angles, however, suggest that his feet were legit, with only his jutting torso breaching the rules, and no linesman should raise the flag for that.
(16) In a statement on her website after it emerged that she was one of a number of well-known names who were part of the Liberty tax scheme, she said it was presented to her by financial advisers in 2008 as "legal and legit".
(17) The online portal continues: While the process of registering the flight numbers of crashed aircraft might be completely legit, and Seyefull Investments Ltd might actually succeed in their attempt to make money off any mention of "MH17" and "MH370", it still remains a fact that this is an ugly, opportunistic attempt at cashing in on the suffering and pain of thousands of grieving family members and millions of people worldwide - not to mention the ended lives of the hundreds of people on board both doomed jetliners.
(18) The abandonment of the Production Code in 1968 opened the floodgates for sex to migrate from dirty theatres to more legit venues.
(19) Leaning against the wall outside the job centre in an Islington side street the 28-year-old, who lost his position as a security guard at Tesco a year ago, said: "If people can't get money in a legit way they are going to get it in a non-legit way, 100%."
(20) My initial response was to tweet: “Fit model is a legit job that needs specific body dimensions.
Legitimate
Definition:
(a.) Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
(a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
(a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
(a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
(a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
(v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(2) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(3) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(4) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(5) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(6) Not exactly – rather, it had become impossible to distinguish between people who were legitimately Googling for information, and people who were trying to take a photo.
(7) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(8) The purpose of this investigation was to calculate the paternity probabilities for a sample of legitimate families with a true father compared with those obtained in some cases of non-excluded men chosen randomly from the population as the accused fathers for the same mother-child pairs.
(9) Statutes in all countries in the region provide that a man must support his legitimate and illegitimate children; there are, however, weaknesses in the laws on the books.
(10) At the same time, sexuality has become a legitimate concern for health professionals.
(11) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(12) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
(13) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(14) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
(15) I think rightly, people have been concerned about whether Syria will follow through on the commitments that have been laid forth, and I think there are legitimate concerns as to how technically we are going to be getting those chemical weapons out while there is still fighting going on.
(16) The only question I can legitimately ask is: why is this happening?
(17) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(18) But I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantánamo detainees – not to avoid one.
(19) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(20) Your writers have defended the extraordinary introduction of an export block to halt their legitimate purchase on the basis of their artistic value, yet you will be storing them in a maritime museum.