Sentence examples for construction of the clause from inspiring English sources

He added that NGN's construction of the clause was offensive to a fundamental principle of English criminal law - that a man was innocent until proven guilty.

Such limitations would be inconsistent with the construction of the Clause as a whole, which, as we have noted, sets out three express limitations in separate sentences.

Mr Laddie said that Mr Coulson's construction of the clause was supported by what might be presumed of both sides' intentions at the time that they entered into the agreement.

Such a construction of the clause gives effect to it, denies effect to no other words or provisions in the statute, and is in strict harmony with every part.

Far less compelling arguments have been made for a constitutional amendment in order to advance the political careers of Henry Kissinger and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who were both born outside the United States to non-American citizens and, by any possible construction of the clause, are ineligible for the Presidency.

It would be extraordinary if these prominent supporters of the Citizenship Clause could have imagined, as the Court's construction of the clause now demands, that the clause was only "declaratory" of the law "where it now is," and yet that it would entirely withdraw a power twice recently exercised by Congress in their presence.

Hence, in the construction of coherence, the clauses with those cohesive devices are more significant than those clauses without the cohesive devices.

As the Court has recognized, "literalism in the construction of the contract clause..

The novel construction of the Contract Clause expressed in the dissenting opinion is wholly contrary to the decisions of this Court.

Will you pardon me when I observe that their construction of the preceding clause does not appear to me to be natural, or warranted by the words.

The current construction of the Confrontation Clause right also excludes some reliable evidence especially from victim witnesses because it favors face-to-face conflict even though overrated demeanor cues can mislead.