invalidity

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Recent Examples of invalidity Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed invalid by an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect. Big Think, 10 June 2020 By the protocol, therefore, Chile gains the relinquishment of Peru's former claims of the invalidity of the entire treaty and notably of the cession of Tarapacá, and leaves open merely the question as to who shall have the unimportant area of Tacna and Arica. Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011 But patent invalidity suits—which test whether the patent claimed by the plaintiff is indeed valid and are the preferred defense for companies being sued for infringement—go through a special German patent court, which can take up to three times longer to render decisions. Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021 Gallagher’s greeting card company Full Colour Black started an invalidity action in March 2019 to cancel the EU trademark on the iconic mural, arguing that Banksy must copyright his work instead of registering trademarks to incorporate them. Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022 The Supreme Court said its declaration of invalidity is retroactive to the date the 2011 law was enacted, meaning those who have been sentenced under the statute can now seek relief. Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 Label choice bias is far more common than subgroup invalidity. Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021 Echelon’s invalidity arguments are similar to those raised by Flywheel over related patents. BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2020
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Noun
  • Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
  • His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.
    Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Noun
  • But people with damaged immune systems or lung diseases can be more vulnerable to serious respiratory infections and other infections that can be fatal.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • During the testing phase roses are reviewed for certain criteria, including growth and development in different weather conditions, as well as disease resistance.
    Jessica Jordan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Recent experience, including Mauricio Macri’s 2015-2019 Presidency, when Caputo and Federico Sturzenegger were also in charge of the nation’s economic levers, ended up with jarring devaluations that initiated a new and deeper descent into economic decrepitude.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There was an empty reservoir in Los Angeles County, overgrown state forests, under-resourced fire departments, mismanaged water and political dysfunction — a steady stream of evidence that the state and the county had failed to guard against a wildfire with the same rigor as the Vogts had.
    Eli Saslow, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Confirmation hearings:Trump’s Cabinet raises concerns about government dysfunction Pence and conservative group have opposed Kennedy Jr. before The AAF's letter represents Pence and his organization's second attempt to prevent Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.
    Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.
    Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025

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