Sentence examples for rather than valid from inspiring English sources

Longer RT in trials for which primes are invalid rather than valid, i.e., the response validity effect, are taken to reflect prolonged motoric processing time.

The model theory also explains inductions, which are inferences leading to plausible rather than valid conclusions.

In employment discrimination cases, he has been too willing to accept employers' arguments that such suits are based on disgruntlement, rather than valid claims.

So far, however, Senate Republicans have opposed the increase, saying the $15 target is a populist ploy rather than valid policy.

She said that the DfT was inviting overspending in its HS2 budget, adding: "The overall funding envelope of £50bn includes a generous contingency, and we are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds".

Five judges at the UN-mandated court upheld the 2016 verdict at the former Bosnian Serb leader's first trial almost in its entirety, dismissing all but one of Karadžić's appeals as "mere disagreement" with the court's conclusions rather than valid legal objections.

But I'd argue that the film is now more, rather than less, valid.

It asserts that "sex-segregated education is deeply misguided and often justified by weak, cherry-picked or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence".

Therefore, as the holotype of Kryptops is a miscellany of materials belonging to different groups with just one autapomorphy supporting the species, this taxon might have been considered as nomen dubium rather than a valid taxon.

During a follow-up interview on Radio 4's Today programme, he seemed to suggest that apprenticeships are a second choice for people whose background prevents them from taking the "privileged" route through university, rather than a valid and valuable form of education and training in themselves.

The committee was similarly critical of existing bike lanes and other infrastructure, saying too much of this "treats cycling as an add-on to roads – an optional extra to be added if there was spare space, rather than a valid mode of transport".