Sentence examples for a contrary reading from inspiring English sources

A contrary reading of the amended appropriations statute, they contend, would yield absurd economic, fiscal, and healthcare-policy results.

This catchall phrase could reasonably be construed to encompass a nonbinding commitment from a physician to prescribe a particular drug, and nothing in the statutory or regulatory text or the DOL's prior guidance plainly requires a contrary reading.

For a contrary reading of the Evil Genius Doubt, see Gewirth (1941) and Wilson (1978).

Thus, even were I to conclude that one might read the exclusion of an "appointee on the policymaking level" to include state judges, our precedent would compel me to accept the EEOC's contrary reading of the exclusion if it were a "permissible" interpretation of this ambiguous term.

The majority's contrary reading, under which paragraph (2) applies "regardless of..

The Third Circuit’s contrary reading ignores the grammatical “rule of the last antecedent,” under which a limiting clause or phrase should be read to modify only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows.

In some cases, the strengthened or neg-raised contrary reading may become salient enough over time to block the literal interpretation, as when French Il ne faut pas partir literally = "one needn't leave" (an O vertex modal)—can now be used only to express the stronger proposition that one must not-leave (E vertex).

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Thank you for taking the time to read a contrary opinion.

Further reading: For a contrary understanding of Descartes' conception of scientia, see Jolley (2013).

On the contrary, a reading (or rereading) of these books—and the stories that preceded them suggests that the very qualities that make Purdy's works worth reviving are also the ones that will forever limit his potential audience.