An example of such matters arises when legitimate institutions clash in a constitutional crisis.

I've even heard American journalists defend the camps as legitimate educational institutions.

That is obviously a more legitimate institution than the others we should be shutting down.

These parties barely accept the State of Israel as a legitimate governing institution.

Rather, they are legitimate comprehensive institutions of higher education.

"We're working very hard to try to co-opt them into legitimate institutions, like the police," the official said.

She took the course through a legitimate institution, and there was no cause for alarm.

The U.S. embassy also states that the only legitimate institutions are the government and president.

We will never, under any circumstances, give succour to those who seek to use force to undermine legitimate democratic institutions.

In the very interests of Europe, attention must be focused on the most legitimate institution.