In 1951, somebody pointed out that as Texas did not become a state of the Union until 1846, worshipping the Texas Flag "of 1836" might be construed as — well, not unpatriotic, certainly, and not secessionist, exactly, but just kind of odd.
Any news that could even vaguely be construed as good?
And that could be construed as good news," says Piskorowski.
I've probably talked to people who could be construed as terrorists — Well, no, I'm not a terrorist — — or at least narco-terrorists.
The occupational dimension is construed as a well-defined, rather narrow, attribute of an aggregate of individuals who derive their livelihood from agricultural production, or perhaps more broadly from employment in extractive industries, such as mining, fishing, forestry, and so on.
Such a person might well be construed as more truly a believer than a person who smugly "assents" to religious doctrines but is unwilling to act on them.
Collectively, all three methods suggest that India had about 1.4 to 1.6 million HIV infected adults aged 15-49 in 2004-6, well below the official estimate of 2.3 million (range 1.9-3.0 1.9-3.0) in this age group. 1 Indeed, our estimillionf Hin prevalence mighthisll be construed ageupper limits.
But the very term "suspense" can be construed as a definition of all well-told stories.
In China-Mart, the labor of preparing food could very well have been construed as relatively skilled compared to cashiering or working the customer service desk.
We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another".
Animation can be construed as the miracle of bringing the inert and the dead, as well as the past, back to life.
