The lack of novelty in Dr. Gray's tree of Indo-European languages is its best feature, biologists say, because it validates the method he used to construct it.
A lot of the motivation for producers to bottle and sell prestige editions is not for the immediate profit from those 720-odd bottles (a tiny volume that will represent less than the rounding error in the accounts) but because it validates the brand and enhances its image.
"I can't go that far myself but I certainly am thrilled and pleased because it validates the importance of the project".
This quote is irresistible for a theatre director because it validates the attempt to make a live performance from a novel.
"It's like they're relieved because it validates the position that their prudent, conservative approach was the right course," said Josh Harris, the founder of Pseudo.com, a Web-based entertainment company that shut down last fall.
The false negative prediction for the sulfate transporter (Rv2397c, Rv2398c, Rv2399c, and Rv2400c) is an interesting case to consider, in part because it validates the observations in the phase plane discussed in Figure 2b.
The French secretary of state for industry, Christophe Sirugue, told France Info the Hinkley decision was good news because it validated French industrial strategy to invest in nuclear.
The IOM report "had an unbelievable effect," because it validated patients' experiences—"it told them that they weren't crazy," says geneticist Ronald Davis, who directs the Genome Technology Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and was one of the report's 15 authors.
Not because the film had a happy ending – it didn't; just an escape and a hope of something more – but because it validated my politics.
I'm glad we, as Asian Americans, embrace the African American culture because it validates life outside the establishment.
