When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Putting a halt to this was a legitimate response to keep lawns beautiful for all our residents.

In some cases the behaviour may be a legitimate response to strong competition.

However, I cannot say that nonviolence is the only legitimate response to systemic violence.

My own culture has no word for suicide; it is an irrational act and, as such, cannot be considered a legitimate response to our situation.

Was remaining in Germany and protesting from inside the system a legitimate moral response to Hitler?

I think it was quite a legitimate response, actually.

But resistance is a legitimate response of the occupied against the occupiers.

They are justified under international law as a legitimate response to prevent a grave humanitarian crisis.

The Cercas report offers a legitimate response to this objective.