Moreover, talks with the regime would give rise to substantial legitimacy problems in the West.

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Allies are seen as an answer to America's twin credibility and legitimacy deficits in its occupation of Iraq.

Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy.

The fall of the Soviet Union undercut the primary source of NATO's legitimacy.

It has no legitimacy, and it is bound to fall.

In many cases, authoritarian rulers lack legitimacy.

One other factor has been the integrity of the President Buhari himself.

The only way to resist these threats is to address their root cause the imbalance of power at the top of the regime and within ministry staffs that is gradually robbing Karzai's government of legitimacy.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

The greatest damage to the UN s legitimacy has been self inflicted.

The court has set the date of August 22 to hear a legal challenge to the swap.

Terrorism must be stripped of any legitimacy that it may be viewed as having.

Here, too, a large segment of the electorate told pollsters that they doubted the legitimacy of the official result.

It lacks legitimacy and its members are unknown.

So reestablishing social trust in the judiciary is one of the weightiest tasks democratically elected officials face during a transition.

What does this do to the legitimacy of governments, and of political institutions in general?

First, Rowhani s victory has delegitimized the policy of resistance that Jalili championed.

Nowadays, activism and terrorism provide, or rather impose, a new source of legitimacy.

In the transition from dictatorship to democracy, members of the judiciary lack legitimacy.

Without legitimacy, no government can rule with any sense of confidence.

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In addition, the institutions created in the days following WWII no longer seem effective enough to meet the new challenges of the global economy, and thus have lost some of their legitimacy.

In the wake of fiercely contested presidential elections, large numbers of voters in each country questioned the legitimacy of the outcome.

True, consensus is important, because it provides credibility and legitimacy.

But, as their regimes increasingly came to be seen as politically illegitimate, their model of Islam was also discredited.

The 1995 strike became an icon of social legitimacy, instilling fear in all succeeding governments.

But this will probably not be enough to restore the popular legitimacy that elected governments have lost.

Third, the G 20 must address its own legitimacy deficit.

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Problems Tab

There'll be trouble.

Were there any problems?

There were problems.

There are problems.

Unlike the US, the EU s difficulties stem not from a perceived lack of legitimacy or crude attempts at promoting democracy, but from a real lack of unity and, therefore, influence.

These are mainly engineering problems, not negotiating problems.

The main problem facing a military operation in Iran is the need to ensure its legitimacy.

And what do they do to the legitimacy of the governments that result from them?

Many NTC members believe that the Council lacks the legitimacy to make tough choices.

Ekaterina writes (and Andrei translates) a analysis of the situation around constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan, which is expected to bring more legitimacy to the Interim Government.

The Russian Center for the Study of Legitimacy and Political Protest is reportedly working on the new alert mechanism.

The scale of the challenge is immense.

Major challenges remain.