Shooting the Messenger When someone tells us something we don't want to hear or deal with, we find ways to attack them and invalidate them so that we don't have to acknowledge that they've made a good point.
The British Foreign Office - and its Australian equivalent - may currently warn against all but essential travel there (so travel insurance may be invalidated) but that hasn't stopped hardcore explorers putting this beautiful country on their gap-year itineraries.
He flew from Hong Kong to Moscow on June 23, evidently planning to catch a connecting flight to Latin America, but after he landed it was announced that the United States had invalidated his passport, so that he could not legally board a plane.
The therapeutic relationship is so intimate and vulnerable, and we show so much of ourselves as clients, that to then be invalidated within that is potentially devastating.
Apple attorney Harold McElhinny said Apple's product design is far superior to previous tablets, so Apple's patents should not be invalidated by designs that came before.
But it's up to you to submit a claim, and waiting too long to do so could invalidate that claim.
The court, the European Court of Justice, also invalidated the so-called safe harbor agreement that permitted technology giants and 4,000 other companies to routinely move data across the Atlantic.
Nothing has invalidated that — on the contrary.
But the court's ruling invalidated everything after that date.
I've heard cisgender people say that they're unaware of their genders much of the time, but the thing is, cis people's genders aren't being invalidated at every turn, so that awareness wouldn't often rise up, would it?
