To put Gall's thoughts about the fine arts in context, brief mention will be made of his scientific career, his guiding philosophy, the questions he most wanted to answer, what he construed as "evidence," how he eliminated the soul or "controller" from his system, and how he presented his work to the public.
But with that power comes the responsibility he shouldered in Casey to take those rights seriously, however narrowly he construes them and despite his known personal opposition to abortion.
"I will try to avoid it, as I did the first nomination," he said, but added that if he construed it as a personal duty, as defined by his Islamic faith, then he would run.
All the evidence suggests that Hoover was genuinely devoted to what he construed as the public good, with the proviso that he wanted his devotion to be recognized.
Brandeis told Frankfurter that he construed the Constitution liberally where property rights were involved, meaning he seldom voted to strike down laws regulating them, but that laws restricting individual rights required closer scrutiny.
At the same time, however, he construed another's self-attribution of experience mentalistically, whereas, as he later acknowledged, to be consistent these should also have been given a behaviorist analysis (see the discussion between Williams and Ayer in Macdonald 1979).
When Albertus Magnus refers to resplendence it is usually safe to construe what he says in terms of some form of divine illumination.
In the middle of his analogy to me about his own personal crash and the country's need to heal itself, Beck looked at his publicist with a flash of alarm about how I might construe what he was saying.
But Mr. Corzine said that he was outraged that the City Council had passed what he construed as an ultimatum: Either the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey must pay $1 billion to the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority or New Jersey drivers who enter the city will be charged $3 more during peak hours, and $4 more during off-peak hours.
