Sentence examples for attempt to construe from inspiring English sources

He was spokesman for the court in its first attempt to construe the amendment, passed after the American Civil War largely to assure the rights of the newly freed slaves.

Second, implicit in the arguments of many of New Labour's critics is a fundamentally flawed characterisation of the agenda of the past 10 years and a wilful attempt to construe its record as some kind of free market fundamentalist continuation of the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Mayo (1996, 214 250) is an attempt to construe Perrin's argument as involving bottom-up rather than top-down reasoning.

However, one must be cautious not to conclude that ancient theories in general attempt to construe the value of virtue simply as a means to achieving happiness.

Moreover, the phenomenologists also reject the attempt to construe intransitive consciousness in terms of transitive consciousness, that is, they reject the view that a conscious state is a state we are conscious of as object.

It has become clear that both Gomès and Sarkozy attempt to construe a much desired reality by presenting the French dominant view as universal, thus aiming to manipulate the minds of the New Caledonian audience into accepting their view as a common sense solution to the independence issue.

At a time when Hartmann was accepting the thing-in-itself almost naïvely, empiricism (in all its forms) rejected it categorically and attempted to construe the real in terms merely of what Kant had called phenomena.

Attempts to construe skeptical arguments against intuition as a reductio of the supposition that intuitions have evidential worth will not be discussed below.

There have even been attempts to construe a few cherry-picked statements from a small number of conservation-focused organizations as environmental support for the pact.

Detectives, theorists, scientists and code-breakers are all left intellectually concussed by their attempts to construe complexity.

Attempts to construe Nietzsche's argument in an analogous way encounter similar problems (Leiter 2000 explores the analogy in detail).