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Behe's concept of Irreducible Complexity sparks curiosity among scientists, caught between Darwinian theory and the possibility of Intelligent Design. Regardless of whether Irreducible Complexity will gain full scientific legitimacy, will be deemed a creationist theory, or will become a point of convergence between Science and Faith, it is interestingly an additional fuel to the scientific quest. - Aloo Denish – Aloo Denish	added by Aloo-Denish 11 months ago
We are dealing with a militia that revolted against the state and its legitimacy. – Salem Abdullah al-Soqotri	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
I believe that the President Biden administration should ignore this ruling, what( the courts) are currently doing is engaged in an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a problem of legitimacy; this is a problem of trust. – Gideon Rahat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The pro-democracy movement was fighting against the Nationalist Chinese regime (in Taipei), and they wanted to look for distinct characteristics that represented the Taiwanese identity, of course, Taiwan’s Indigenous groups gave it the most legitimacy, and so it also gave rise to subsequent Indigenous rights movements in the 1980s. – Ku Heng-chan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If people don't respect democratic outcomes, then obviously that raises the tension considerably, it can lead to a collapse of order of legitimacy for the American nation and our elected government. – Shadi Hamid	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You advised spurious so-called legal efforts to mislead tens of millions of Americans that the electionhad been stolen, and congratulations, you succeeded. As recently as this year, and even tonight, you’re still casting down on the legitimacy of the election. – Evan McMullin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is, simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court. – John Roberts	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court, the chief justice is absolutely right to be concerned about Americans losing faith in the Supreme Court : A June Gallup Poll found that a record low 25 % of respondents say they have confidence in the court -- down from 40 % two years ago. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So obviously people can say what they want, and they are certainly free to criticize the Supreme Court and if they want to say that Supreme Court legitimacy is in question, they are free to do so. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Beijing appears willing to absorb the economic and social costs that stem from its zero-Covid policy because the alternative — widespread infections along with corresponding hospitalizations and deaths — represents an even greater threat to the government's legitimacy. – Craig Singleton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don't think we're going to have a coup in the classic sense with the military on the street, like what happened in 1964, what I think is more likely to happen is an attempted coup, some kind of subversion of democracy... or any attempt to delay the electoral process by introducing doubts about the legitimacy of the process. – Paulo Roseno	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nothing is more dramatic than having College Board launch an AP course in a field — that signifies ultimate acceptance and ultimate academic legitimacy, aP African American Studies is not CRT. It's not the 1619 Project. It is a mainstream, rigorously vetted, academic approach to a vibrant field of study. – Henry Louis Gates	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. President, we have respected the resolutions of international legitimacy and signed agreements, and we have committed ourselves to renouncing violence and fighting terrorism in our region and the world, mr. President, we look forward to the efforts of your administration to turn the page on the Israeli occupation of our land and the acts of racial discrimination, apartheid against our people; and to stop unilateral actions that undermine the two-state solution. – Mahmoud Abbas	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision, they just took the last of it and set a torch to it. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Chinese President noted the legitimacy of Russia's actions to protect its fundamental national interests in the face of challenges to its security created by external forces. – The Kremlin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
All the members of the Organization of American States, we all defend democracy. And if you want to be a member of the organization, you have to defend democracies. So I clearly believe that the Summit of the Americas shall not be an instrument of non-democratic regimes to participate in order to try to get diplomatic legitimacy. I think no dictatorship shall participate in the Summit of the Americas. – President Duque	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Economic slowdown is quite a big concern, the central government always utilizes so-called economic performance to enhance their legitimacy. So how are they going to( explain) sluggish economic performance ? I don't know. But one thing is very sure, people will be suffering. – Alfred Wu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
( Beijing is) considering the perceived impact on political and social economic stability, considering the impact on the leadership transition ahead of the Party Congress, and considering the regime legitimacy -- there is a lot at stake. – Yanzhong Huang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A government failure to effectively respond to such a crisis could translate into a legitimacy crisis( ahead of Party Congress). – Yanzhong Huang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The last thing that the Chinese leaders want is to have a nationwide, major Covid-19 outbreak that overwhelms the hospitals... and could contribute to social and political instability, a government failure to effectively respond to such a crisis could translate into a legitimacy crisis( ahead of Party Congress). – Yanzhong Huang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
First of all, I think the Chinese are worried that if they are to make moves on Taiwan or to get more aggressive or simply a spark the ire of the United States and its allies, they too could be subject to similar sanctions, and so they want to start undermining the legitimacy of this sort of ganging up on a great power. – Michael Beckley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils. – Eli Steele	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Prime Minister Henry doesn't have any legitimacy or credibility to govern. Prime Minister Henry positions might send us to a deeper crisis. – James Beltis	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Behe's concept of Irreducible Complexity sparks curiosity among scientists, caught between Darwinian theory and the possibility of Intelligent Design. Regardless of whether Irreducible Complexity will gain full scientific legitimacy, will be deemed a creationist theory, or will become a point of convergence between Science and Faith, it is interestingly an additional fuel to the scientific quest. - Aloo Denish

– Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
11 months ago

We are dealing with a militia that revolted against the state and its legitimacy.

– Salem Abdullah al-Soqotri

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

I believe that the President Biden administration should ignore this ruling, what( the courts) are currently doing is engaged in an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a problem of legitimacy; this is a problem of trust.

– Gideon Rahat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pro-democracy movement was fighting against the Nationalist Chinese regime (in Taipei), and they wanted to look for distinct characteristics that represented the Taiwanese identity, of course, Taiwan’s Indigenous groups gave it the most legitimacy, and so it also gave rise to subsequent Indigenous rights movements in the 1980s.

– Ku Heng-chan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If people don't respect democratic outcomes, then obviously that raises the tension considerably, it can lead to a collapse of order of legitimacy for the American nation and our elected government.

– Shadi Hamid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You advised spurious so-called legal efforts to mislead tens of millions of Americans that the electionhad been stolen, and congratulations, you succeeded. As recently as this year, and even tonight, you’re still casting down on the legitimacy of the election.

– Evan McMullin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is, simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court.

– John Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court, the chief justice is absolutely right to be concerned about Americans losing faith in the Supreme Court : A June Gallup Poll found that a record low 25 % of respondents say they have confidence in the court -- down from 40 % two years ago.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So obviously people can say what they want, and they are certainly free to criticize the Supreme Court and if they want to say that Supreme Court legitimacy is in question, they are free to do so.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beijing appears willing to absorb the economic and social costs that stem from its zero-Covid policy because the alternative — widespread infections along with corresponding hospitalizations and deaths — represents an even greater threat to the government's legitimacy.

– Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think we're going to have a coup in the classic sense with the military on the street, like what happened in 1964, what I think is more likely to happen is an attempted coup, some kind of subversion of democracy... or any attempt to delay the electoral process by introducing doubts about the legitimacy of the process.

– Paulo Roseno

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nothing is more dramatic than having College Board launch an AP course in a field — that signifies ultimate acceptance and ultimate academic legitimacy, aP African American Studies is not CRT. It's not the 1619 Project. It is a mainstream, rigorously vetted, academic approach to a vibrant field of study.

– Henry Louis Gates

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. President, we have respected the resolutions of international legitimacy and signed agreements, and we have committed ourselves to renouncing violence and fighting terrorism in our region and the world, mr. President, we look forward to the efforts of your administration to turn the page on the Israeli occupation of our land and the acts of racial discrimination, apartheid against our people; and to stop unilateral actions that undermine the two-state solution.

– Mahmoud Abbas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision, they just took the last of it and set a torch to it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Chinese President noted the legitimacy of Russia's actions to protect its fundamental national interests in the face of challenges to its security created by external forces.

– The Kremlin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All the members of the Organization of American States, we all defend democracy. And if you want to be a member of the organization, you have to defend democracies. So I clearly believe that the Summit of the Americas shall not be an instrument of non-democratic regimes to participate in order to try to get diplomatic legitimacy. I think no dictatorship shall participate in the Summit of the Americas.

– President Duque

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Economic slowdown is quite a big concern, the central government always utilizes so-called economic performance to enhance their legitimacy. So how are they going to( explain) sluggish economic performance ? I don't know. But one thing is very sure, people will be suffering.

– Alfred Wu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

( Beijing is) considering the perceived impact on political and social economic stability, considering the impact on the leadership transition ahead of the Party Congress, and considering the regime legitimacy -- there is a lot at stake.

– Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A government failure to effectively respond to such a crisis could translate into a legitimacy crisis( ahead of Party Congress).

– Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The last thing that the Chinese leaders want is to have a nationwide, major Covid-19 outbreak that overwhelms the hospitals... and could contribute to social and political instability, a government failure to effectively respond to such a crisis could translate into a legitimacy crisis( ahead of Party Congress).

– Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First of all, I think the Chinese are worried that if they are to make moves on Taiwan or to get more aggressive or simply a spark the ire of the United States and its allies, they too could be subject to similar sanctions, and so they want to start undermining the legitimacy of this sort of ganging up on a great power.

– Michael Beckley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils.

– Eli Steele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Prime Minister Henry doesn't have any legitimacy or credibility to govern. Prime Minister Henry positions might send us to a deeper crisis.

– James Beltis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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