Sentence examples for the only valid reason from inspiring English sources

Federal officials originally said that the only valid reason for denying children transfers was a lack of capacity, which they defined as physical limitations to comply with fire and safety regulations.

Education officials contend that the only valid reason for not letting children transfer out of a failing school is lack of space, which they define as levels that violate safety regulations.

The only valid reason for me to do a book is because I think transmission of what we call savoir-faire, the know-how, to younger generations of people who want to open a restaurant, is important.

"The jackpot linked to the tourism sector is the only valid reason for the junta allowing foreign tourists into the country," the French advocacy group Info-Burmanie said in a still-useful and clear-eyed travel report that it published last summer.

Two of the 'No' responses actually gave a reason for the classes to be different whereas the only valid reason supporting no difference was the following: 'I gave my answer no because the difference between the armspan (sic). is not big (it is medium not big).'.

Shmuly was testing the waters, perhaps, getting a feel for an outsider — the sort of person who browses the Internet wantonly, without any filters, on his cell phone even, getting distracted this way and that by an unending stream of links that are full of schmutz and have nothing to do with the only valid reason for the Internet: conducting business.

Shortly after Sept. 11, George W. Bush told his budget director that the only valid reasons to break his pledge not to run budget deficits would be if the country experienced recession, war or national emergency.

Having grown up together, and traveled along a familiar circuit of approved schools and drowsy summer places, the Old Money people actually did know each other and also tended to hold the quaint-seeming view that birth, marriage and death were the only valid reasons to find one's name in print.

For example, it will be necessary to consider whether the review should include only valid reasons, or the narrower set of reasons that are valid and sound.

And when that's not the reason, people are like, Well, then what?! as if cheating is the only valid excuse in the world for splitting.

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