legal footing

"I thought you were the legal footing," Jacobi said with a grin.

Members of Congress have proposed to amend the law to put the eavesdropping program on a firm legal footing.

And Congress may yet put some or all of the president's programs on firmer legal footing.

I want my campaign to be on a firm legal and ethical footing from day one.

As a result, the trial was allowed to proceed on its original legal footing.

The rights of carers are expected to be put on the same legal footing as those of the people they look after.

There is little question that the prosecutors are on firm legal footing.

Finally, our checklist will help you make sure that you have put your business on a proper legal footing.

The objective was to obtain legal footing in part of the archipelago before the Soviets did.

The new provision would allow such behaviour to continue and put it on a legal footing.