'construing' is a valid word in written English and can be used as both a verb and a noun
It is used to describe the process of interpreting something in a particular way, or the interpretation or opinion formed from something. For instance, you could say "The lawyer's construing of the case was that the client was innocent."
Once the speaker is sworn in as president, it would be almost unthinkable for the courts to provoke a crisis by considering the legality of the act.The indispensable starting point for construing the constitution has to be the document's original meaning.
But in the early 19th century, the Supreme Court began construing the commerce clause more expansively, using it to prevent states from taking action that is indirectly prejudicial to interstate commerce.
"Construing the commerce clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority," Mr Roberts wrote.But the mandate, the chief justice explained as he sided with the president's backup argument, may be considered a tax on those without insurance, and Congress has the power to tax.
Benussi preferred the term 'psychic present', construing the latter as the 'time required to apprehend the maximum number of elements of a change in one single perceptual act' Albertazzi (1994: 161); see also Albertazzi (1996).
One example is Iris Marion Young's 1980 essay "Throwing Like a Girl," about the prevailing masculinized rendering of women's embodiment that stigmatizes feminine physicality, wrongly construing the female body as fragile and burdensome.
Although the two views are not incompatible (Ayer denied that moral claims were assertions, and the redundancy of the truth-predicate held only for assertions) the tension between the two is symptomatic of the worry that moral claims have so many of the features of truth-evaluable assertions that one has to be unjustifiably revisionist in construing them as non-meaningful.
He spends most of the essay contrasting subjective and objective interpretations of group membership, equality, and equality of opportunity, construing "subjective" and "objective" in terms of in-group and out-group interpretations.
It may be felt that in so far as sense-data are objects at all, this is inevitable; but Moore now needs to provide an account of the apparent properties of sense-data and it is not clear how he can do this without going back on the initial motivation for the sense-datum theory by construing these apparent properties as properties of our experiences.
A further problem has been drawn to my attention by Paul Spade, in his comments on an earlier draft of this article: "if every proposition signifies se esse veram, and we're construing the infinitival expression personally, we've got a problem.
The actuality constraints rule out overly stringent ways of construing this relationship.
Moreover, construing gratitude as a virtue captures nicely the moral phenomenology of how we tend to respond to evidence of ingratitude.
