Sentence examples for construing the from inspiring English sources

In construing the constitutional issues so narrowly, the decision can be read as taking a reluctant, even begrudging, stance toward affirmative action.

In fact, while the court seasoned its opinion with discussions of canons of statutory construction, even the court acknowledged that it was changing, not construing, the law.

In carefully construing the contest statute, no single statutory provision will be construed in such a way as to render meaningless or absurd any other statutory provision.

"Here," said the Democrats' legal filing, "the Florida Supreme Court's opinion makes clear that it did not rely upon the Florida Constitution in construing the election law".

Construing the statute this way "avoids the need to examine the serious First Amendment problem that would otherwise exist," he said.

Construing the issue in terms of gifts and gratitude might distort the policy "model" for similar problems, including Iran and North Korea.

Graham notes that the noun was then construed as plural, on the analogy of chaff, but today's ballot counters are referring to chads, construing the word chad as singular.

He goes on: "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.

(d) to construe the laws I sign in a Presidential way.

Don't construe the sitcom comparison as a simple sneer.

But it wasn't an H-bomb, at least as the panel construed the term.