Sentence examples for construed and understood from inspiring English sources

For that procedure would deny him all opportunity at the trial to show that the Rule, fairly construed and understood, should not be given a broad sweep 5 and to make a record that the documents demanded by the subpoena had no 'public aspects' within the required records rule but were private papers.

This paper argues that reliability assessments of complex technologies can usefully be construed as 'audits' and understood in relation to the literature on audit-practices.

We each construe and understand their content in a particular way.

Lawyers for both sides said the ruling was narrowly construed and based on a technicality.

Bacon's induction was construed and conceived as an instrument or method of discovery.

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.

Traditionally, the proponents of semantically incommensurable theories (paradigms, research programmes, research projects, global theoretical units) have been construed as unable to understand each other.

This subsection shall not be understood, construed or enforced in any manner that would require an employer to give a preference to any veteran over any equally qualified applicant who is a member of any racial or ethnic minority, female, an individual with a disability, or a former employee.

Although biologists universally view the decomposition of a system into its lower-level parts as reductionistic (an instance of methodological reduction, see Section 1), they often construe the attempt to understand how the parts are organized so as to bring about the system-level properties as a synthetic, non-reductionistic endeavor (Bechtel 2010).

AfriForum, a civil rights group, made an urgent court application to interdict and restrain Malema from publicly uttering any words "which can reasonably be understood or construed as being capable of instigating violence, discord and/or hatred" between black and white people.

Nothing in this chapter shall be understood or construed to give the Commission the power of censorship over the radio communications or signals transmitted by any radio station, and no regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed by the Commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of radio communication.