bona fides

bona fide | American Dictionary

bona fide
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈboʊ·nəˌfɑɪd, ˈbɑn·ə-, -ˌfɑɪd·i/
real or true; not false:
This is my first bona fide job.

bona fide | Business English

bona fide
adjective
uk /ˌbəʊnəˈfaɪdi/ us /ˌboʊ-/
legal or honest:
bona fide commercial transactions

Examples of bona fide

bona fide
Although the b-helix is a plausible structural motif for amyloid fibrils, it has not yet been proven that bonafide b-helices occur in amyloid fibrils.
For all that we can see, it is a bonafide ordinary impossibility.
Nonetheless, three types of evidence can be cited in support of a bonafide democratic tendency.
These data clearly demonstrate that cells within the hair follicle bulge possess the classical defining features of bonafide stem cells.
However, it is still unclear how these processes affect the internal microstructure of such remains, or even how to recognize bonafide preserved microfossils.
The international community had an obligation to separate them from bonafide refugees.
The plaintiff's rule can count as a bonafide authoritative rule because it can completely epistemically guide conduct.
Only bonafide auxiliaries were permitted : the modals can/could, will/would, shall/should, may/might, or be, do, or have.
If all of these criteria can be satisfied, we have certainly identified bonafide languages.
Clearly further studies will be required in independent and larger populations to have confidence that the association is bonafide.
That is, meromorphic maps are not bonafide maps.
The molecular structures in certain non-fibrillar aggregates that form before bonafide amyloid fibrils may closely resemble the molecular structures in the fibrils themselves.
The author is also systematically biased in assessing what qualifies as democratic struggle and bonafide insurgency.
Another bill, passed even earlier, relaxed the 1855 law requiring that sureties on official bonds be bonafide residents of the officeholder's jurisdiction.
As an additional service, the instructor (if bonafide) can ask the publisher for sample solutions of selected exercises.
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