Representing a position does not confer legitimacy when even the people who agree with you are voting for someone else.

The broadcast conferred legitimacy on the radicals opposing the party old guard.

But that is not the only way to confer international legitimacy on a country's attempt to cope with a repugnant past.

He wrongly argues that the international community should confer legitimacy on Hezbollah.

Indeed, international approval helped to confer legitimacy on a man who won a bitter, sharply polarized campaign.

So it was once with spin bowling, where age conferred legitimacy.

Otherwise participation confers legitimacy on to a system that increasingly lacks it.

This agreement, if implemented, would confer legitimacy on the forthcoming elections, but it is currently off the table.

Finally, it can be noted that there is no particular suspicion regarding these measures, which confers further legitimacy on them.

In the opinion of some, direct election confers legitimacy upon the president and gives the office much of its political power.