The Republicans generally defended the telephone calls, saying they were a legitimate effort to test possible advertising campaigns.

Some view the research as a legitimate effort to sustain compatible economic and ecological goals.

He defended the ads as a legitimate governmental effort to stimulate the city's economy.

He is the first of their members who attempts to turn the family's efforts completely legitimate.

The Mayor has defended the ads as a legitimate governmental effort to stimulate the city's economy.

But a few people with no connection to legitimate efforts have been asking for money over the Internet and in telephone calls.

"It is a legitimate effort to establish a place in the social setting of a university that values social living groups," he said.

Candidates say these expenditures are part of legitimate efforts to win support.

Can it also reassure us that competition policy will not continue to undermine the legitimate efforts of regional and cohesion policies?

"It was a legitimate effort to defeat a nominee on the basis of his views, views that were extreme."