Sentence examples for had construed from inspiring English sources

When the Organic Act came up before Congress, the Third Circuit had construed it to permit the Virgin Islands' divorce law.

Interviews with students, Mr. Thacher said, made it clear that what Mr. Stancik had construed as cheating had actually occurred during practice examinations.

Eaton cut out or waved away everything compromising (the duels Jackson fought, a soldier he had executed), lingered longer over everything wondrous (battles, mainly), and converted into strengths what pundits had construed as weaknesses.

Griffin had construed the Fifth Amendment to forbid comment on defendants' failure to testify, thereby removing a burden from the exercise of the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination and further implementing its purpose.

"She disagreed markedly with Tolstoy's emphases and conclusions at almost every turn; moreover, she was deeply embarrassed that the reading public had construed the story as a reflection of her own marriage to the famous writer," writes the professor.

Gay activists and others have forced Martin to cough up two laughable quasi-apologies, both of which expressed regret to those who had "construed" his message as anti-gay, when in fact nothing as enterprising as construal is necessary to find homophobia in the tweet.

"Some have construed his silence as acquiescence.

That's never been the way I've construed it.

21 No court of the State has construed the act.

Some have construed Hanna Rosin's The End of Men as a death knell.

Generally speaking, we have construed war-power provisions to take account of evolving technological realities.