degree of legitimacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdegreeandlegitimacy
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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legitimacy
noun[U]
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mə.si/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mə.si/
the quality of being ...
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(Definition ofdegreeandlegitimacyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The resulting party system enables the new democratic framework to accommodate and integrate the country's most relevant political actors, and thus to gain a significantdegreeoflegitimacy.
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Larger groups convey somedegreeoflegitimacyto policymakers and should be more likely to attain lobbying success than organisations that cannot claim to represent a large group of citizens.
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Has not a sufficientdegreeoflegitimacybeen reached?
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It is not sensible to aspire to adegreeoflegitimacy.
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A hereditary peer would not get in on the basis of adegreeoflegitimacy.
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In that way we create a system which has a highdegreeoflegitimacyand is democratically anchored.
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It should have adegreeoflegitimacy.
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It is measured by thedegreeoflegitimacy.
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That gave adegreeoflegitimacyto the existence of those nasty little groups.
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The conclusion can thus be drawn that the election was used to secure adegreeoflegitimacythat the observers do not recognise and that is not acceptable to democracies.
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The problem with using proportional representation or some other form of election for the other place is that it would confer a differentdegreeoflegitimacy.
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As private equity reemerged in the 1990s it began to earn a newdegreeoflegitimacyand respectability.
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Genre fiction has received somedegreeoflegitimacy, as authors formerly known for their literary fiction have written novels under pseudonyms.
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However, only specialists in psychiatry can express authoritative opinions about thedegreeoflegitimacyof these diagnoses.
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One knows that many senior civil servants on retirement have taken up, with varying degrees of legitimacy, lucrative industrial and commercial appointments.
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