Sentence examples for generally construed from inspiring English sources

Mr. McCain's speech was a clear embrace of the judicial philosophy of President Bush and other recent Republican presidents who sought judges who generally construed laws as narrowly as possible, who for the most part favored government authority in criminal matters and who were opposed to the expansion of abortion rights.

Self-serving attributional tendencies in annual report narratives are generally construed as purposive impression management behaviour.

Selectionist models of biological evolution, on the other hand, are generally construed to be non-progressive or, at most, locally so.

The continuum problem more generally construed is really the problem of where the power of the continuum is in the scale of aleph numbers, and the generalised continuum hypothesis is the conjecture that taking the power set of an infinite set corresponds to moving up just one level in the aleph scale.

MTV generally construed that it could use any music accepted for its air as scoring on its shows because of its "clip rights".

As mumps is generally construed to be a mild disease, only a minority of patients consult their GPs with regard to symptoms.

Perhaps more threatening to the whole-brain approach is the growing empirical evidence that total brain failure is not sufficient for human death —assuming the latter is construed, as whole-brain advocates generally construe it, as the breakdown of organismic functioning mediated by the brain.

In any case, most authors who write about religious experience generally construe it as caused by something other than our ordinary faculties and their intersubjectively available objects, and thus do not think of it as one of the topics of natural theology (see Alston 1991).

Reductions generally were construed as instruments to enable the natives adopt European lifestyles and values; this was not the case in the Jesuit reductions, however, where the Jesuits allowed the inhabitants to retain many pre-colonial cultural practices.

In Krivanek v. Take Back Tampa Political Committee, we said: "We acknowledge that election laws should generally be liberally construed in favor of an elector.

They settle on the idea that unmotivated actions are to be minimized, where an action ("actions" construed generally enough to include any change) can be motivated directly, e.g. by an axiom, or indirectly, through chains of motivations.