Sentence examples for thereby invalidating from inspiring English sources

Instead the court decided that the EC had not filed the charge within 15 days of its decision to prosecute, thereby invalidating the entire process.

However, it is often a major design requirement of a wave energy conversion device that the response amplitude is large, thereby invalidating one of the assumptions of the linear model.

Environmental recovery programmes could not heal all scars, but this study shows that overall there has been a remarkable recovery of vegetation and also improved soil protection over the last 140 years, thereby invalidating hypotheses of the irreversibility of land degradation in semi-arid areas.

Imaging of copper patinas using high intensity X-ray microprobes can change the composition of the surface thereby invalidating the results.

It is a concept that often works destructively, naming certain people as defective and thereby invalidating them, but it can also be liberatory, such as when it releases people from pain and distress.

The enterprise has been a significant contributor to the emergent recognition of the need to give greater respectful attention to raciality and ethnicity (as well as to gender, sexual orientation, and other constitutive aspects of our personal and social identities) as conditioners of philosophical praxis without thereby invalidating reconstructed notions of proper reasoning.

Had an anti-Muslim animus informed, and thereby invalidated, the policy?

Fred, Henry's younger brother, resolves to unravel the mystery behind the will and thereby invalidate the lawsuit.

Mr. Bart says that it is "a simple case," since Mrs. Greenfield signed away all her rights to the group's recording earnings in her divorce settlement and thereby invalidated a 1963 contract signed by the Ronettes.

It is significant, however, that American railroads never once asked Congress to exercise its unquestioned power to enact uniform legislation on that subject, and thereby invalidate the [p787] Arizona law.

In 1850 the state court declared Scott free, but the verdict was reversed in 1852 by the Missouri Supreme Court (which thereby invalidated Missouri's long-standing doctrine of "once free, always free").