Sentence examples for construed either as from inspiring English sources

So, by the end of the year, the court could have ejected seven of the country's 27 governors.This may be construed either as a terrible assault by the judiciary on democratic politics, or a welcome sign that long-flouted rules are at last being enforced.

Note also that it can be construed either as eliminating mental entities or simply as identifying them with physical objects.

Third, in his distinction between negative and infinite judgments he apparently needlessly distinguishes between a "wide scope" negation of whole propositions and a "narrow scope" negation of predicates, thus creating a systematic ambiguity in interpreting propositions of the form "Fs are not Gs," which can then be construed either as "no Fs are Gs" or as "Fs are non-Gs".

In response to being dubbed "Mr Miserable" by The Sun-Heralds Peter Holmes for the lyrics of "My Happiness" and "These Days", Fanning pointed out that the songs could be construed either as melancholy, or as part of "the most hopeful record... in a long time".

Though most philosophers construe sounds either as properties or as event-like individuals (see section 2.1 Sounds), much recent discussion among psychologists has concerned auditory objects (see, e.g., Kubovy and Van Valkenburg 2001, Griffiths and Warren 2004).

It could be construed as either providing aid to a family back home or as transferring money to potential terrorists.

Li notes that a common meaning of the word is 'make' or 'result in.' The relation between li and ren need not be construed as either definitional or constitutive, nor need it be construed as purely instrumental.

Indeed, given that here S is a hidden, not directly observable variable, it can be construed as either a measure of constraint (negatively correlated with R) or as a measure of robustness to mutational and translational errors (positively correlated with R).

In what can be construed as either a remarkable instance of cultural self-alienation or youthful insouciance, Akhil is Sean in and out of the workplace.

The document went on to say that the filing should not be construed as either a confirmation or a denial of any of the claims made by the civil liberties group about government surveillance activities.

They have been known to neatly skin a full-grown minke whale, bite off its dorsal fin, and eat only its tongue, a behavior that has been construed as either a tendency toward ostentatious epicurean wastefulness or a cross-species reënactment of an Aztec virgin sacrifice.