Sentence examples for doubtful validity from inspiring English sources

The supposed Miocene pelican Liptornis from Patagonia is a nomen dubium (of doubtful validity), being based on fragments providing insufficient evidence to support a valid description.

These larger units are of doubtful validity and restricted utility.

Accordingly, word classes such as adjective and preposition, which presuppose the existence of the noun phrase and prepositional phrase, are of equally doubtful validity.

The prediction of properties on the basis of an orderly extrapolation appears to be of doubtful validity, however, in this heavy-element region of the periodic table.

Below that value any stopping-power formula is of doubtful validity, even though it is certain that most of the energy is still being lost to electronic states down to a few eV of energy.

The set of dependencies can also be used to filter cases to be classified, eliminating spurious cases, and cases for which the classification is likely to be of doubtful validity.

They also noted that the orders were of "doubtful constitutional validity".

The organised crime and public safety bill and the crime prevention orders bill are built on doubtful constitutional validity.

"[D]ifferent cases can raise very different issues with respect to statutes of doubtful constitutional validity," and thus there are "a variety of factors that bear on whether the Department will defend the constitutionality of a statute".

The problem is that the variant at codon 2 is not present in all the BAK2 sequences of reference found in the NCBI databank (Fig. 2), which makes very doubtful the validity of the reference sequence for BAK2 and thus the demonstration of Gottlieb et al. [ 2009, 2010].

The tsunami run-up is confirmed by a historical document or tradition, although its location is indicated only by a village name, and a detailed location is unclear D Validity is doubtful.