Sentence examples for construes that from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: Paul Krugman ("The Texas Unmiracle," column, Aug. 15) construes that "Perrynomics amounts to... a fallacy of composition: every state can't lure jobs away from every other state".

It masks the fact that many Americans don't really know what gun laws are on the books and falsely construes that to mean they don't want common-sense gun laws passed — when they clearly do.

A case in point is Schaffner's suggestion (Schaffner 2006&2012) that we should reconsider the relevance of merely partial reductions or of scientific explanations, broadly construed, that are reductionist in spirit, despite the fact that they do not comply with more traditional standards of full-fledged theory-reductions.

Jurors might construe that as an admission of guilt.

But if being a loner makes people construe that as grumpy, well, it could be a worse label".

"If she went and met with the Muslim Brotherhood, it was construed that she was pro-Brotherhood.

It requires a bit of cynical twisting to construe that as an insult to the Eucharist, or to Catholics.

"I would not construe that as saying that Russia needs to be downgraded, or is irrelevant," Mr. Brzezinski said, but that "we do not need it for everything".

"My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody should construe that to mean I think the town leadership were saints, either.

But while it could be "legitimately construed" that Mr Zuma had misled parliament over the renovations, the report also said he may have made a "bona fide mistake".

Certainly, it could be construed that way, and needn't mean, as opponents of same-sex marriage sometimes claim, that the Court would then have to allow a person to marry a child, or his sister, or his dog.