1.   The system will also suffer severe difficulties if it lacks legitimacy with its own employees, including prison staff and probation officers.

2.   Asian politicians are increasingly conscious that unelected regimes lack international legitimacy.

3.   Democratic congressional leaders did the same, brushing aside the notion that a president elected without a popular majority would lack legitimacy.

4.   It will lack the legitimacy to carry out painful economic reforms or cope with popular protests.

5.   After an election marred by violence, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia headed toward victory Thursday, but rivals who boycotted the vote claimed the government lacked legitimacy.

6.   Against this backdrop, both Daschle and Gephardt assured Bush they would not seek to undermine his authority by suggesting his presidency lacked legitimacy.

7.   Even the leader of the Russian-installed interim government, Solambek Khadjiev, admits his administration lacks legitimacy.

8.   Her rivals who boycotted the vote claim the government lacks legitimacy.

9.   The vice-president quit on Tuesday, saying President Ernesto Samper himself should resign because he lacks legitimacy.

10.   Kim Jong-Il is likely to be viewed as lacking revolutionary legitimacy and may be an unstable character, analysts say.