Sentence examples for cannot construe from inspiring English sources

We cannot construe the agreement in such a fashion.

The North Korean spokesman said that with the American request to include conventional arms in the talks, "we cannot construe this otherwise than an attempt of the U.S. to disarm" North Korea "through negotiations".

But we cannot construe that single word to mean that this Court intended the Court of Claims to reopen the entire question of the order's appropriateness and substitute its own judgment, either on the record made before the Commission or on independent evidence, for the Commission's findings and conclusions on that question.

Yet as noted previously, Leibowitz cannot construe statements in the Torah regarding the event of revelation at Sinai as historical statements.

A variant of the argument from nature is the idea that whereas younger women "need" fertility treatment, we cannot construe postmenopausal women as having such a need because it is not natural for them to be able to reproduce.

Even if it the most central problems of political theory cannot be construed in fundamentally epistemic terms, perhaps selected problems of political theory should be so construed.

But that privilege cannot be construed to include the right to commit perjury...

But that privilege cannot be construed to include the right to commit perjury.

The definition's use of words like 'traitor' cannot be construed as representations of fact.

The Bible Believers' speech cannot be construed as fighting words because it was not directed at any individual.

But his defeat by Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary cannot be construed as a defeat for the party itself.