Sentence examples for Have construed from inspiring English sources

"Some have construed his silence as acquiescence.

But recent Supreme Court decisions have construed Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce more narrowly.

Some have construed Hanna Rosin's The End of Men as a death knell.

Generally speaking, we have construed war-power provisions to take account of evolving technological realities.

There is a boyish but unruffled quality about him that some critics have construed as complacency.

We've had a taste of this in recent months, as various scholars (a generously inclusive term) have construed the meaning of the word "jihad" for a Western audience.

That's never been the way I've construed it.

21 No court of the State has construed the act.

As to the State Supreme Court's mandate, that Court has construed it by affirming petitioners' second convictions.

When the Organic Act came up before Congress, the Third Circuit had construed it to permit the Virgin Islands' divorce law.

Interviews with students, Mr. Thacher said, made it clear that what Mr. Stancik had construed as cheating had actually occurred during practice examinations.