Confidential information should not be disclosed to persons without a legitimate need to know.

Hard-headed screening helps retain resources for those with legitimate need while curtailing the inadvertent funding of nefarious enterprises.

Relationships are a legitimate need.

Fishermen and others with a legitimate need for them will not be affected.

It's tempting to lose heart when our legitimate needs aren't met.

Third, they had to show that the restriction was not directed to a legitimate objective and was disproportionate.

In itself, that was an entirely legitimate objective of a legislative provision of that kind.

The justification given had to be based on a legitimate objective and the means chosen to achieve that objective had to be appropriate and necessary for that purpose.

By adopting that position, the court had acknowledged that rewarding, in particular, experience acquired which enabled the worker to perform his duties better constituted a legitimate objective of pay policy.

Both have entirely legitimate objectives which must be reconciled.

It's a legitimate protest - people are making clear their views.

However, this attack was not about legitimate protest.

Those who had been intent on pursuing a legitimate protest by peaceful means were forgotten.

Officers formed a barrier, but they continued to shout slogans that 'go beyond legitimate protests'.

The amendment emphasises, however, that 'a person acting for a legitimate purpose may not be able to weigh to a nicety the exact measure of any necessary action'.

There are times when private consultants on the public payroll serve a legitimate purpose, for instance when a government department needs genuinely specialist expertise on a short-term basis.

This cycle of predation effectively reduces the potential predation of monarchs by 50 percent and indicates that monarch aposematism has a legitimate purpose.

Today we would be horrified at anyone who thought this kind of evangelism had a legitimate purpose.

He found that protection of the environment constituted such a legitimate purpose.

But do you think that's a legitimate question to ask?

A legitimate question, given the appealing qualities of this imaginatively ambitious yet economical and intelligently crafted touring production.

It's a legitimate question for anyone in sport.

A legitimate question, but not the right time to be asking it.

He also said that the current debate about the preferential tax treatment of non-domiciled residents raised a 'legitimate question'.

The people who are willing to wait six weeks are almost without exception those with a legitimate reason to see me.

That was a legitimate reason for imposing the right-of-residence test.

That may be a legitimate reason for stopping redemptions.

Because first, in age-old atavistic primeval struggle-for-survival evolutionary terms, there exists a perfectly legitimate reason for wanting to assess any new environment.

Anyone found breaching the decree without a legitimate reason would be fined 203 euros and face three months in prison.

We told the government about it, but we didn't think the newspapers necessarily had a legitimate right to know about everything.

Citizens have the legitimate right to demand this of their non-elected heads of state.

People who find themselves the beneficiary of a bank's error can be inventive in persuading themselves that they have a legitimate right to keep it.

Attackers with a legitimate right to contest the ball are prevented from doing so by defenders who block them.

The first issue was who could be seen to have a legitimate right in land, a necessary requirement to sue in nuisance.

He described it as a 'legitimate source' to allow students to see how their work should be presented.

They are a legitimate source of concern and justify remedial action, both in the context of future agreements and in reaction to their effects.

The hoary acid pirates have become a legitimate source of plunder for a distorted three-string guitar and drums garage-psyche duo.

Diamond exports must be accompanied by a certificate affirming that they come from a legitimate source.

Superior knowledge of rivals offers a legitimate source of competitive advantage.

The civil police are not a legitimate target, only those who are waging war or who are providing others with the means of waging war.

He believed she was a legitimate target, a passenger ship being used as a ship of war.

As a result, its legitimate target escaped with minor injuries.

In time-honoured fashion, it will talk up its profits and prospects, all with the legitimate target of making its suitor go away — or pay more.

Ultra-blingy lifestyles in general are now a legitimate target.

All these maps are as aesthetically attractive as they are historically intriguing, so it's perfectly legitimate to view the fair as an art exhibition.

It's perfectly legitimate to be proud of their moral views even if you don't agree.

Arguably an outrageous undermining of perfectly legitimate expectations.

To increase spending in this way was of course a perfectly legitimate choice.

From my point of view, they are based on quite old technology, but perfectly legitimate.