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.