Mr. Lightfoot gave the ballad, perhaps the only sea chantey to become a major hit in the arena rock era, a straightforward reading midway through his set.
Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the court, relied on a straightforward reading of the identity-theft statute, which requires that the defendant "knowingly" use another person's identification.
A straightforward reading of the law thus means that Congressional staff members, starting in January 2014, will have to obtain insurance through the Affordable Care Act but pay for it on their own without the normal contribution from their employer — Congress.
The program opened with a straightforward reading of the Concerto No. 1 in F, followed by the Concerto No. 2 in F, enhanced by vivid contributions from the flutist Sooyun Kim.
By comparison, Charlie Parker's "Anthropology" was given a straightforward reading, aside from a single bar in the bridge that was repeated four times, as if to suggest the skipping of a record.
The Treasury said its conclusion resulted from a straightforward reading of the 2010 health care law, which says that workers are not eligible for premium tax credits if they have been offered affordable coverage under an employer-sponsored plan that provides minimum value.
He began with Britten's "Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song by Dowland)," an adventurous set of variations that takes a violist through the palette of timbres, from rich to glassy, and a broad spectrum of techniques before suddenly melting into a straightforward reading of Dowland's plaintive "Flow My Tears".
As a group of former members of Congress argued in an amicus brief, a "straightforward reading" of the Fair Housing Act both as it was passed in 1968 and as it was amended in 1988—makes clear that disparate-impact claims were intended.
Such realism is also taken to be manifested in the essential bi-polarity of propositions; likewise, a straightforward reading of the picturing relation posits objects there to be represented by signs.
"It's truly a straightforward reading and analysis and application of the [Texas] Homeland Security Act.
Her father, Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, was the best-known pastor of his generation, a man whose tendency to rise from a straightforward reading of scripture to an impassioned crescendo had him dubbed "the man with the million-dollar voice".
