The law's imprecision allowed for competing interpretations.
Its competing interpretations play out each day in the newspapers.
Outside the squat red-brick prison, the air quickly filled with competing interpretations of the death.
Sometimes the law is unclear, and so the justices must choose between competing interpretations.
Identifying competing interpretations, of course, is only part of the battle.
And she refuses to defer to competing interpretations by Congress or the state legislatures when they clash with her own.
It is a war complicated by competing interpretations of history, and by conflicting political and economic philosophies.
Critics of the international standards say they allow too much room for competing interpretations of the same transactions.
Such disputes between Government agencies with competing interpretations of events are common, and they can go on for years.
Though dramatic economic disparities existed, as did competing interpretations of the nation's revolutionary heritage, France surged with optimism.
The WTO's rules are too woolly and subject to competing interpretations to deal with scientifically complicated and politically explosive issues.
