Both groups claim legitimacy over leadership of the Palestinian territories.

She claimed legitimacy by saying that her mother slept with the god Amon and that she was the issue.

National parliamentarians can claim electoral legitimacy in their own right.

Elections, it appears, have increasingly become a tool used by authoritarian leaders to claim legitimacy.

Conversely, while a trade union provides the basis for claiming legitimacy of action, official industrial disputes may still not actually enjoy widespread legitimacy.

As a result of the 2007 split there were two organisations, both claiming legitimacy over the Respect identity.

Sometimes, polls find majorities favoring contradictory positions, so advocates can claim popular legitimacy for either stance.

As a result two separate nominating conventions were held which both claimed legitimacy.

As a result, a situation of dual power existed in that region from July to October in 1993, with two administrations claiming legitimacy simultaneously.

The fact that parody can claim legitimacy for some appropriation does not, of course, tell either parodist or judge much about where to draw the line.