legitimate expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegitimateandexpression
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legitimate
adjective
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is alegitimateexpressionof a society's ethics.
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Again, this is a perfectlylegitimateexpressionof opinion.
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Public acceptance of and involvement in the development of government policy influences whether the policy is accepted and is seen as being alegitimateexpressionof public will.
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The amendment refers to conduct consisting of "thelegitimateexpressionof religious belief".
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A labour legislation which seeks only to atomize and constrict thelegitimateexpressionof workers' demands.
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In no way would integration accommodate minority aspirations or enable them to findlegitimateexpression.
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By definition, we are trying to establish what is such alegitimateexpression.
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That will includelegitimateexpressionof opinion and scrutiny and discussion.
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We have no proposals whatever to inhibit thelegitimateexpressionof rights by employees.
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They are alegitimateexpressionof views which in a democracy very frequently differ.
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What constitutes alegitimateexpressionof religious belief is highly subjective—it is capable of innumerable definitions.
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What is meant by alegitimateexpression, and will that be defined when the guidance comes along?
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I object strongly to the fact that some people whose political views are different from mine cannot distinguish between disagreement andlegitimateexpressionof opinion.
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The police interviewed one of the people who booed him and decided that it was not a breach of the peace; it was alegitimateexpressionof opinion.
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Mass seizure in the fashion of this case was thus effected without any safeguards to protectlegitimateexpression.
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Moreover, its deterrent effect onlegitimateexpressionin the form of movies is both real and substantial.
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