Sentence examples for construction upon it from inspiring English sources

"If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it".

'Time and again this court, in giving effect to the principle underlying the Fourth Amendment, has refused to place an unduly literal construction upon it.

The statute is to be read with the construction placed upon it by the state court.

It is not, however, the charge given by the court that was too broad, but the construction put upon it by counsel.

My decision to invite Miss S to put the van in my drive in 1974 was taken reluctantly, but the construction put upon it in the film seems to me true to the facts.

My decision to invite Miss S to put the van in my drive in 1974 was taken reluctantly, but the construction put upon it in the film seems to me true to the facts.

The stone remained unsought and unfound, lost for more than four years, until another construction worker stumbled upon it.

If the one construction is placed upon it, then obviously, even accepting the largest estimate of value placed by any witness upon the property of the company, a single day's violation of the statute would exhaust such entire value in satisfaction of the penalties incurred.

It's a wonderful construction upon the flashy glam rock that gave careers to David Bowie and T-Rex, endlessly listenable and replayable, particularly opening track Weekend.

They were heard during the next Parliamentary session in 1831, and both passed; they "by no means established for him the reputation of a skilful legislator... the judges have found it infinitely difficult to put a reasonable construction upon them".

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has authority over DAPL, halted construction upon confirmation of the Sioux Tribe's Treaty rights over Lake Oahe and its surroundings.