When could he legitimately claim that he'd tried to turn back the aircraft?

It can legitimately claim to have done a great deal to get him elected.

This is a tradition to which he can legitimately claim heritage.

Exactly what academic (as opposed to, say, more general civil) rights might students legitimately claim?

Feeling unloved, she finds it very difficult to appreciate even the ten points he can legitimately claim.

How can this legislation legitimately claim to protect minors?

This raises the question of whether corporate officers can legitimately claim inventory in their current borrowing base.

And he is the only one who can legitimately claim to be an outsider.

There was a little magnification in the bottom part, so I could legitimately claim they were reading glasses.

About the same number could legitimately now claim to be Cossacks.