legitimate exercise
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegitimateandexercise
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legitimate
adjective
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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exercise
noun
uk/ˈek.sə.saɪz/us/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/
physical activity that you do to make your body strong ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandexercisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Insofar as it counteracts the hindering of a citizen'slegitimateexerciseof her freedom, then, coercion promotes that exercise and is thereby consistent with it.
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The key characteristic of advanced nursing practice, in a discussion of the research on this topic, was found to be thelegitimateexerciseof authority to develop autonomous practice.
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Reason implies, for instance, that thelegitimateexerciseof any authority must be limited to the pursuit of the ends which the authority may be held to serve.
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Later speakers have indulged in the quitelegitimateexerciseof blaming each other.
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This is not a breach: it is a perfectly sensible andlegitimateexerciseof discretion.
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It is alegitimateexercisethat one should be able to trigger a loss as well as a gain.
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I regard this action as alegitimateexerciseof his discretion in the circumstances of the case.
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It is alegitimateexerciseof our own sovereignty.
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We must not under this second alternative impose so strict a limit that it will interfere with thelegitimateexerciseof political rights.
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I regard that as no more than thelegitimateexerciseof local direction.
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That is alegitimateexercisefor elected representatives.
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The export credit, and the other grants, would seem to my mind to fall clearly outside the realm oflegitimateexerciseof power.
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It was a whollylegitimateexercise.
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It should be noted that, in particular, it will no longer be possible for local education authorities to override governing bodies in thelegitimateexerciseof their functions.
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This is known as preemption: a situation where alegitimateexerciseof national authority supersedes any conflicting action by a state government.
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Hegemony is in simple terms leadership with the consent of the led (that is leadership that is considered by those who are led to be thelegitimateexerciseof leadership).
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