There are about 300 incorporated municipalities in Louisiana, described as state units, which exercise narrowly construed powers.
"Goliath Concussed" might be construed as power run amok.
Expanding on this critique Carolyn Ells adopts Foucault's analysis of biopower to argue that informed choice must be understood in explicitly relational terms that construe power relations as diffused throughout society (2003).
The study demonstrates how the interactants in the New Caledonian independence debate construe power and ideology through the transitivity choices and enthymematic structures they employ, revealing highly incongruous views and assumptions of the reality of 'Caledonianness'.
The paper aims to demonstrate how the interactants in the New Caledonian independence debate construe power and ideology through the transitivity choices and enthymematic structures they employ, revealing highly incongruous views and assumptions of the reality of 'Caledonianness'.
The focus of this paper is on how the interactants in the debate construe power and ideology through specific transitivity choices and how they employ various discursive strategies to achieve their purpose of persuading the audience to accept the French dominant viewpoint as truth.
Generally speaking, we have construed war-power provisions to take account of evolving technological realities.
But recent Supreme Court decisions have construed Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce more narrowly.
The definition of a Munchausen mom has devolved into a "manipulative person who seeks attention from somebody who can be construed to hold power".
The philosophers David B. Allison and Mark S. Roberts note, in their book "Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis?," that the definition of a Munchausen mom has devolved into "a manipulative person who seeks attention from somebody who can be construed to hold power of some kind: that is, probably, anybody".
To remove that perceived obstacle, they broadly construed Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce and limited judicial protection of individual rights to infringements upon certain of the guarantees (although not all of them) specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, as well as laws targeting politically powerless minorities.
