Sentence examples for the only valid form from inspiring English sources

Randomised controlled trials are not the only valid form of impact evaluation.

They called their group of amateurs the Dança Balé de Rua – "street ballet crew" – in a dig at those who saw ballet as the only valid form of dancing.

Gary Gilmore was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1977, having asked for that method after a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 1976, but a 2004 law made lethal injection the only valid form of execution.

Gervais spends our entire interview with his feet up on a desk, his fingers occasionally making their way into a thoughtful templing, and at one point he very sincerely repeats a Tommy Smothers saying about offence: "He said the only valid form of censorship is someone's right not to listen".

A widely held belief asserts that during these years a band of rigorous, cutting-edge composers, mostly based in prestigious East Coast universities, seized the intellectual high ground and bullied their colleagues and students into accepting serial procedures as the only valid form of modernism.

"Many people in the current Movement for Black Lives believe that the only valid form of protest is getting out in the streets and disrupting people's everyday lives, so no one can escape from confronting this issue," Stenvoll-Wells says.

This clearly points to music hall's scion being, in spirit if not in strict adherence, the ITVBe powerhouse that is structured reality, which as regular readers of this column will know, is the only valid art form.

The only valid test of a poet's authority lies, of course, in the poem itself.

But, suddenly, The Times owns the only valid opinion.

Yet we regard elections as the only valid method.

The only valid argument is that the game in developing countries would benefit from Olympic funding.