Sentence examples for construed expansively from inspiring English sources

If you were choosing an all-star team of 20th-century American writers to represent the liberal mind — construed expansively, not in narrowly political terms — you might have Lionel Trilling batting cleanup, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. hitting eighth and so on.

The Court begins by noting that privileges "are not lightly created nor expansively construed, for they are in derogation of the search for truth". Nixon, 418 U.S. at 710.

Was freedom, narrowly construed, enough?

But he was construed otherwise.

The court construed Art.

But anarchism, broadly construed, is becoming fashionable.

Watch out!" – was construed a threat.

Would that be construed as cheating?

"Some have construed his silence as acquiescence.

Consequently, none can be construed as being "global".

How is such fuzziness to be construed?