It is a "willed artifact, a human construct in which many conscious and unconscious factors played their part".
But lawyers point out that such a definition is part of the legal construct in which the burden of proving guilt falls on the government.
Some in-jokes go over a few heads, but it's a clever construct in which Helm's stage persona – a sweaty, shouty misfit – is used to great effect.
The point might have been made forthrightly, but Mr. Carsen devises an elaborate construct in which La Scala itself plays an essential part.
Since then, however, it has become clear that Medvedev is not the liberal reformer that some had hoped but part of Russia's managed democracy construct, in which elections are stage-managed and dissent swiftly squashed.
So, you had this really unhelpful construct in which the folks who were building our Web site weren't able to talk to the people who were filling the Web site with great journalism each day.
Reagan was not introverted, yet from infancy he had the same kind of "happy" self-centeredness that Bradbury speaks of, the same need to inhabit an imaginative construct in which outside reality was refracted, or reordered, to his liking.
The marriage can be considered as a latent construct in which the child plays a role without constituting it.
Insulin gene transcription was studied using a reporter construct in which the human insulin promoter was fused to luciferase.
d The CPD fusion construct in which the affinity-tagged CPD is fused to the C-terminus of the target protein.
Both segments were then cloned into the binary pCAMBIA1301 vector to generate a construct in which GNS4 was driven by its native promoter.
