(a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(2) Third, the appropriation of these symbolic forms of society, self, and the emotions by the current Iranian Islamic state and the role of the state in defining the meaning and legitimacy of emotions and their expression is analyzed.
(3) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
(4) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
(5) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(6) "In contrast, Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the Libyan people and the international community."
(7) Every action they take serves only to rearm us and give us greater legitimacy for what we’re doing,” he said.
(8) Hamas vehemently denies the legitimacy of Israel but its leaders have stated repeatedly that if Fatah negotiates with Israel a two-state peace deal based on the 1967 borders, and if this outcome is approved in a national referendum, it would respect it as the choice of the Palestinian people.
(9) Hamas feels that the conflict brought it significant international legitimacy, with a stream of regional political figures heading to Gaza to show solidarity with Palestinians under bombardment.
(10) Scalise did acknowledge that speaking to the group was a “mistake I regret”, but there has been no explicit apology for or acknowledgement from either of the three men that his presence may have done more lasting damage by conferring legitimacy on David Duke’s group, even just among the people in attendance.
(11) I hereby make a special appeal to Ecowas, AU [African Union] and the UN, particularly the security council, to support the government and people of the Gambia in enforcing their will, restore their sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy,” he said.
(12) The former first lady’s relationship with Williams is also an important because prosecutors have said Williams was not so much a personal friend but a businessman who showered the McDonnells with cash and gifts because he wanted their help in establishing legitimacy for his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc.
(13) Lesser writers on Mexico, including myself, have insisted that the line between legitimacy and criminality, upon which Mexico’s international relations are based, is a fantasy, that the line between legality and illegality is a lie, not only within Mexico, but internationally, with regard to the laundering of the profits of crime.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour ‘ready to offer strong and stable leadership’ Corbyn tells MPs “Theresa May has no mandate and no legitimacy for policies that do not have the support of the majority of the British people.” Corbyn also told MPs he wanted to learn lessons why they lost in some areas, and said he would be meeting candidates who lost their seats.
(15) An election that had been designed to bolster the legitimacy of the Afghan government has had precisely the opposite effect, producing a president elected only through widespread and systematic fraud.
(16) China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party.
(17) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(18) Legitimacy of the symbiont transfer theory removes the constraint of interpreting presence of cellulolytic protozoa as a synapomorphy between Cryptocercidae and Isoptera, with potential impact on objective resolution of dictyopteran phylogeny.
(19) It is also, for the profession as a whole, one of the two ultimate claims to continuing legitimacy and respect, the other being technical competence.
(20) The legitimacy of such a diagnosis is seldom challenged.
Parentage
Definition:
(n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(2) The spectra show no obvious parentage in the known c.d.
(3) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
(4) His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman" - appraising Gary Neville's parentage in 1996.
(5) The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions.
(6) She insisted that the race of the two parties – Martin was black, Zimmerman of mixed white-Hispanic parentage – never came up in the jury room.
(7) The presence of three pregnant Shetland mares in the same pasture, however, raised some questions about parentage, even though all three mares apparently gave birth to single foals within 6 weeks after the birth of the propositus.
(8) Will it have anything as loopy as the Mos Eisley cantina, or as horrifying as the revelation of Luke’s parentage?
(9) The high prevalence of otitis media in children of mixed parentage and in one particular family of European ancestry suggests the presence of intrinsic or pronicity factors that are seemingly transmissible.
(10) Much of the hope around breathing new life into the movement has rested on the relatively youthful shoulders of figures such as Rubio, whose Cuban parentage is seen as allowing the party to move away from its image as dominated by old, white men.
(11) Furthermore, the cogency of exclusion of parentage, the average power of exclusion and the probability of parentage is calculated using published mutation rates and gene frequencies of the four probes.
(12) In conclusion, use of the four gene probes has both theoretically and practically turned out to be a powerful method for parentage testing.
(13) The discrimination probability of AHSG is 0.5704 and the exclusion probability of parentage 0.1669.
(14) The two groups identified in Puerto Rico were: Puerto Rican islanders (adolescents who had never lived outside of Puerto Rico) and Puerto Rican immigrants (New York City-born youngsters of Puerto Rican parentage whose families had returned to live on the island).
(15) The validity of the Pi polymorphism for population genetics, linkage analysis and parentage testing is discussed.
(16) But why should a university look at anyone's parentage to decide whether to admit them or not?
(17) Intracranial haemorrhage is usually a very rare occurrence in the fetus before the onset of labour but we have identified major, mostly subdural, prenatal intracranial haemorrhages in 47 infants of immigrant Pacific Islander parentage.
(18) The basic parametres of the population structures, such as parentage and consanguinity, which is what physical anthropologists have been researching in recent years in Spain, form an important data base which must be integrated into future Genetic Epidemiology studies; these studies will result in its natural progression.
(19) Teenagers of mixed black and white parentage face peculiar difficulties in the developmental tasks of adolescence.
(20) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.