The phrase "are interpreted against" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to indicate that something is understood in a way that is unfavorable to a particular party, often in the context of contracts or agreements.
Example: "In cases of ambiguity, the terms of the contract are interpreted against the interests of the party that drafted it."
Alternatives: "are construed unfavorably" or "are understood in opposition to".
However, in general, ambiguities in contractual language are interpreted against the party that prepared this language and in favor of a reasonable alternative interpretation proposed by the other party.
Coefficients of correlations with data from other constructs are interpreted against a-priori hypotheses; exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses clarify the clustering of items and their representation of a process model of the construct; and assessments of the measure's ability to detect change and expected between-group differences validate the performance of a measure.
But the very premise of Miranda requires that ambiguity be interpreted against the interrogator.
In each, ambiguities or holes in the company's by-laws were interpreted against it.
The reign of Constantine must be interpreted against the background of his personal commitment to Christianity.
Ovid's next work, the Metamorphoses, must also be interpreted against its contemporary literary background, particularly in regard to Virgil's Aeneid.
Respondent contends that the Treaty must be interpreted against the backdrop of customary international law, and that international abductions are "so clearly prohibited in international law" that there was no reason to include such a clause in the Treaty itself.
And the lessons of both cases are quite clear: Any ambiguity in an advance notice by-law will be interpreted against the company and in favor of the stockholder.
The other judges said that any rule has got to be interpreted against the background of some general moral principles, one of which was that people can't profit through their own deliberate wrong.
As finastéride reduced PSA by an average of 50% the PSA values were interpreted against a new threshold to provide as many biopsies in the finasteride arm as in the placebo arm.
The following results were interpreted against this background.
