Mary Batchelor urged the committee to strike the words "encourage" and "promote" from the bill, "so that it couldn't be construed to make the teaching of our religious beliefs to our children a crime".
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to make Radio Free Asia a Federal agency or instrumentality.
See 31 U.S.C. § 1301 d) ("A law may be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury... only if the law specifically states that an appropriation is made").
The state statute, construed to make lawful the employment of the means here shown to deprive plaintiff of his right to work or to make lawful the picketing carried on in this case, is repugnant to the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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One representative response to my quote above, from The Register: "In no way can this statement be construed to make sense, and I'm not just being a pedantic asshole here.
Occassionally, the public was construed to making interpretations of one's sero-status using the basis on what one received from the campaign.
The ad attributes that assertion to a December 2011 New York Times article where Holder told a reporter that a few critics were "conflating things, conveniently leaving stuff out, construing thins to make it seem not quite what it was".
1400, 3 L.Ed.2d 1959 (1959), which we construed to have made a 'final' and 'favorable' determination, 376 U.S., at 159 , 84S.Ct., at 621, that petitioner had been wrongfully deprived of his employment.
Nothing contained in this section shall be held to affect or impair any right heretofore legally acquired: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be held or construed to authorize or make lawful anything heretofore prohibited or made illegal by the antitrust laws, nor to exempt any person from the penal provisions thereof or the civil remedies therein provided.
