That sounds at first like a validation of the idea that being fit trumps being fat.
So has the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where callers have turned seeking validation of the idea that kimchi may ward off avian flu, spokeswoman Kathy Stover said.
"This is really a fantastic breakthrough for patients suffering from chronic myelogenous leukemia, but it is also a validation of the idea that if we understand targets we can develop useful drugs," said Dr. Frank McCormick, director of the cancer center at the University of California at San Francisco.
The imagined absence (in fact, it would be surprising if the queen's staff didn't slip in a last-minute replacement) is a tidy validation of the idea that every subject in a kingdom, like every bone in a body, counts.
So far it's only good news and validation of the idea that cheap CubeSats could potentially be launched by the dozen to undertake minor science missions at a fraction of the cost of something like InSight.
In a validation of the idea that art can inspire life, this art makes you wish you were there.
In this context, the present study represents a validation of the idea that gene expression patterns derived experimentally can be relevant to the study of human cancer at the transcriptomic level.
While our results are consistent with the idea that mRNAs are delivered throughout the neuronal arbor, validation of this idea as a general mechanism will require analysis of a larger pool of specific transcripts.
Platinette is an audiovisual validation of that.
This is another validation of the idea of "the wisdom of crowds" known in social sciences [38], which suggests that when there are too many good possibilities from different sources, collect the wisdom of all of them to reach a global solution (this remark was given by one of the article reviewers).
But the praise Mr. Lee heard at Wednesday's banquet, he said, "was a validation of Stan's work and a validation of the idea of entering China with American-style animation".
