Sentence examples for for construing from inspiring English sources

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.

Caffarel (2006: 20) asserts that "the grammar of ideation provides us with the resources for construing experience as meaning".

Modality is modeled as a system of choices for construing uncertainty between yes and no in SFG.

This complexity points to the intricate processes that have evolved in human cultures for construing shared meanings in pedagogic practices.

Each process type provides its own model or schema for construing a particular domain of experience (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: 170).

The system of transitivity is a resource for construing human experience of change or goings − on in the flow of events inside and around us.

Some reviewers of Ackroyd's "History of England" volumes have jumped on him for being flippant about facts — for instance, for ahistorically construing as "English" the various and sundry peoples who have inhabited the land now called England, reverse-engineering history to create a false narrative of continuity.

Previous studies showed that concrete examples affect judgments more strongly than abstract descriptions do, because concrete examples are more salient, memorable, or convincing (e.g. Borgida & Nisbett, 1977; Jenni & Loewenstein, 1997; see also Semin & Fiedler, 1991 for different ways of construing abstract versus concrete descriptions).

It has strengthened demands for greater financial autonomy, similar to what the Basques enjoy, and the Barcelona government has called early elections for November, construing it as a plebiscite on the issue.

Further, the pervasive and historically rooted societal pathologizing of homosexuality [ 53- 57], particularly among racial/ethnic minorities by their communities, may contribute to this propensity for treatment by construing homosexuality and issues associated with it as mental health problems.

In between, there is quite some room, for instance for partially reductive accounts construing meaning/content as determined by a dispositional and a non-semantic, but normative component.