legitimacy

Legal experts questioned the legitimacy of the Pentagon’s investigation.

Like the climate crisis or the crisis of democratic legitimacy, the affordability crisis has become an umbrella term for countless loosely connected phenomena.

“I’m sure they were concerned about disrupting the brand awareness they’ve built and losing the legitimacy and gravitas of the NBC name,” Doughty said.

Many critics claim the investment into top-class sport is a move to gain legitimacy and deflect attention from controversy over Saudi Arabia's human rights record, a practice known as 'sportswashing'.

The emphasis on the primacy of national identity and the need to locate political legitimacy in accountable national governments, rather than in supranational institutions accountable to no one, is welcome.