Sentence examples for construing it as from inspiring English sources

Moreover, 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' have since been used to legitimise the military's use of force, construing it as part of a global struggle against Islamic extremism.

Nowhere more so than on this side of the Channel: "The English reception of Proust has been especially plagued by a tendency to sport acquaintance (often slight) with his work as a badge of distinction, at once social and spiritual, by construing it as a storehouse of exquisite epiphanies laced with a strong dose of class-bound aestheticism".

The satirical painting, The Spear, has provoked one of South Africa's most polarising political debates in recent years, with the ANC and others construing it as reopening the wounds of racial apartheid, while others have defended artist Brett Murray's right to free expression.

This methodology, guided by its rich ideal of empirical success, supports a conception of scientific progress that does not require construing it as progress toward Laplace's ideal limit of a final theory of everything, and is not threatened by the classic argument against convergent realism.

In fact, it is common to make sense of syntax by construing it as a way to combine symbols, that is, semantically interpreted constituents.

When such scepticism does cautiously raise its head, it is expressed so timorously that you could be forgiven for construing it as an endorsement.

It is wholly inconsistent with the section's language and purpose to construe it, as have respondent and the lower courts, to require reasonable effort by only one conciliatory device whem others are available.

He construed it as a partial down payment.

You could, for example, construe it as an exercise in "loving thy neighbor".

When the subject is the pronoun what, the writer must decide whether to construe it as the thing that (singular) or the things that (plural).

"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.