However, the approval rating is generally accepted as a statistically valid indicator of the comparative changes in the popular US mood regarding a president.

Of course, size was no valid indicator of potential threat.

If the opinion polls are a valid indicator, the Panamanian electorate will reject President Perez Balladeres's re-election bid, despite his expensive public relations campaign.

If Richter's time line is a valid indicator, then Mr. Cran is nearly there.

In the absence of a sale, the courts have found operating data to be the most valid indicator of value.

From the client's point of view, certification may be a less valid indicator of a trainer's competence than where and how he or she was educated.

This would be a more valid and useful indicator of the state of terrestrial health.

"Once you've made that determination," he says, "as much maligned as the SAT is, it's quite a valid indicator of intellectual firepower and drive."

What makes the publication of middle school scores particularly offensive is that the scores are not the valid and reliable indicators the state Education Department purports them to be.

A cliche that is a true and valid indicator that whatever is about to follow is utter uninformed, ignorant nonsense.