One way to distinguish between push polling as a tactic and polls which legitimately seek information is the sample size.

In most cases, the sales pitches are legal and there are no laws, state or Federal, that prevent marketers from legitimately seeking your patronage by mail or phone.

And so Major League Baseball, which, while not inventing the term "dumb and dumber," may legitimately seek a patent on it.

Might not a debtor legitimately seek release from his creditor?

The Mayor has no problem with people legitimately seeking employment.

Aid, a gift, is another matter entirely and the International Development Association can legitimately seek structural reform.

We believe Missouri may legitimately seek to safeguard the personal element of this choice through the imposition of heightened evidentiary requirements.

Even if she were a private citizen legitimately seeking his services, the public nature of the contact was completely inappropriate.

After all this, we then just end up sending them back to countries which they are legitimately seeking to leave, often for political and economic as well as humanitarian reasons.