Some of them said that aggressive public statements can be a legitimate tool for a defense lawyer in a high-publicity case.

Paper locals can sometimes be used as a legitimate organizing tool.

Q. In what cases are noncompete agreements a legitimate tool?

Like so many state actions we now condemn, ethnic cleansing was viewed not so long ago as a legitimate tool of foreign policy.

While wanton arson was not a legitimate tool of war, he'd never heard it so specifically and vehemently forbidden.

Stings are a legitimate, and necessary, tool of law enforcement.

"I do not deem dishonesty a legitimate tool of diplomacy," Spock said.

But when her forecasts turned out to be accurate, she began to respect cards and charts as legitimate tools.

It was not until years later that psychoanalysis was recognized as a legitimate psychiatric tool.

War, it seems, has made a comeback this year as a legitimate tool for "the continuation of political intercourse."