Consequently, IBA practitioners use codes whose validity, correctness and accuracy have never been validated beyond the authors' efforts.
When randomized comparative trials are not possible, observational studies, whose validity can be enhanced by appropriate methodology, must be considered as a valid method.
Global warming is routinely described as a matter of scientific debate — a theory whose validity has yet to be demonstrated.
Sometimes I have the strange sense that my poems are like bodies whose validity is without savor unless they can pierce the skin of normal existence.
USA Track and Field's chief executive, Doug Logan, said Thursday that he would seek to nullify the American and world record in the men's 4x400-meter relay, whose validity has been called into question because of drug use.
Rather than portraying Yorktown and subsequent setbacks as anomalies in an arc of imperial ascent, Brendon uses this novel point of entry to reinterpret the British empire as an enterprise whose validity was persistently challenged, from within and without.
Boyd, vice-president of English Pen, said Puttnam's amendments had "nothing to do with the principle of libel reforms, whose validity had already been established" through consultation and debate in three parliamentary committees.
She ends with a plea for gay rights and equal marriage, the tearfulness of which seems incongruous, but whose validity – the more so after an hour in Calman's company – is screamingly obvious.
And throughout the film it is Chow and Li-Zhen that we see, but never their counterparts: an affectation, perhaps, but one of whose validity and naturalness Wong Kar-wai effortlessly persuades us.
These positions may be held so dogmatically that their supporters feel that coercion is justified in forcing people to accept their point of view or that violence is an appropriate response to resist policies whose validity they question.
But Mr. Gaulkin, who was the Hudson County prosecutor before spending 22 years on the bench, contends that it should be treated as "trace evidence," like that found at a crime scene, whose validity must be proved, not assumed.
