Sentence examples for valid rather than from inspiring English sources

To be sure, the court's construction of this statute so as to make it include procedures other than live-birth abortion involves not only a disregard of fair meaning, but an abandonment of the principle that even ambiguous statutes should be interpreted in such fashion as to render them valid rather than void.

"[The NYPD] will have to improve auditing to ensure that stops are valid rather than just meeting quota," Azmy said.

This literal approach was followed until the 1950s; since then, the judiciary have been more willing to interpret trust documents in such a way as to make the trusts valid rather than void.

In addition, the difference in intron length and GC content between retained introns and constitutive introns implies that the predicted retained introns in this study are most likely valid, rather than from genomic DNA contamination or (immature) pre-mRNA.

Similarly, the first real-time qRT-PCR studies have generally normalized expression levels to an internal control that is assumed to be valid rather than one that has been shown to be valid by statistical analysis of data.

SEM is mainly a confirmatory technique rather than exploratory and is more likely to be used to determine whether a certain model is valid, rather than to find a suitable model.

They insist on winning the argument (imposing their opinion as the only valid one) rather than winning the client.

It took decades of most media outlets letting the fossil-fuel industry's propaganda arm create the false framework of two equally valid opinions rather than reporting the overwhelming scientific consensus and tremendous danger of climate change.

Lawyers for Mrs. Astor's two court-appointed guardians, Annette de la Renta and JPMorgan Chase & Company, had filed papers saying that a will that Mrs. Astor signed in 1997 should be the valid one, rather than a subsequent will she signed in 2002.

His instructor might have trouble getting the student to understand why his answer constitutes a valid proof (rather than merely a desperate bid for partial credit).

Its privacy setup process put the less and more private options right next to each other, presenting them as equally valid choices rather than some tedious configuration tool that might break something if you're not careful.