Sentence examples for construed according to from inspiring English sources

The code recommends that its provisions be construed "according to the fair import of their terms," which comes closer to the European practice.

The body is the plain text, whether narrative or didactic, construed according to common grammatical or semantic norms.

In this way, particular textual personae will be construed according to the extent that the writer does assume such 'solidarity' with readers, and according to the particular value positions (via particular attitudinal assessments) of specific targets, and for which such writer-reader alignment is assumed.

Indeed, it is not immediately clear what it would be to treat a conditional, construed according to Supp, as an assumption: to assume something, as ordinarily understood, is to assume that it is true; and conditionals are not being construed as ordinary statement of fact.

It was proposed to insert after the word Juries, "with the accustomed requisites," leaving the definition to be construed according to the judgment of professional men.

Granted my son has no idea about it now, but there is likely to come a time when he doesn't want his naked pictures on the internet, no matter how innocently construed they are (although according to this clip, 20% of teens send naked pictures of themselves via text or web).

Regarding ideational meaning, all these examples contain some kind of circumstantial meaning - meaning which contextualises the events construed in the clause according to such dimensions as time, place and manner (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004).

Rather, the court engaged in a routine exercise of statutory interpretation that construed the Florida election code according to the Legislature's designated "manner" for choosing electors in a statewide election.

So construed, the meaning of an expression, according to Locke, is the idea associated with it in the mind of anyone who knows and understands that expression.

This theft is not likely to cause the wealthy person's well-being to fall below any plausibly construed threshold of harm, and thus according to (III) does not harm him.

The only plausible candidate is the subjective meaning of probability according to which probability is construed as the strength of belief.