Sentence examples for construe from inspiring English sources

Too many on the left construe co-optation in terms of an iron law demonstrating the inadequacy of the party as a form for radical politics.

And based on how the court's previous decisions construe the 14th amendment, upholding the ban will be in keeping with the court's equal-protection jurisprudence over the past few decades.That said, the 58% of Michigan voters who added the affirmative-action ban to their constitution have decreased minority enrollments in their state.

All the justices must do, the argument goes, is to include a class of people who have been shut out first implicitly, and then, with state bans in the 1990s and ballot initiatives in the early 2000s, explicitly from one of life's great opportunities.This argument urges the justices to construe the history of marriage rights quite broadly.

Only the paranoid can construe this as a threat to Venezuela or the Amazon.

She declined ostensibly for lack of evidence, but more probably for fear of taking action that Indonesia's Islamic parties might construe as siding with the West in a global war of religions.If all goes well, the horror of Bali may in time strengthen the East Asian front of the war against terrorismEven before Bali, this calculation was probably over-cautious.

It has now become quite risky to be a foreign researcher or businessman in Russia if your field of interest includes anything that a spy-catcher could possibly construe as secret.

One would be hard-pressed to construe the Spanish government as tyrannical and oppressive, yet ETA still bombs away.Terrorists vocalise an empty rhetoric in pursuit of their goals.