Sentence examples for have construed from inspiring English sources

"Some have construed his silence as acquiescence.

But recent Supreme Court decisions have construed Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce more narrowly.

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

There is a boyish but unruffled quality about him that some critics have construed as complacency.

We've had a taste of this in recent months, as various scholars (a generously inclusive term) have construed the meaning of the word "jihad" for a Western audience.

Robert Allenby has been perhaps most vehement in his condemnation of what many have construed as a dirty-tricks campaign by the tournament organisers.

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

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.

"By a bare majority," La Follette said, "the court has repeatedly overridden the will of the people as declared by their representatives in Congress and has construed the Constitution to mean whatever suited their peculiar economic and political views".

A sweeping examination of the intimate link between war and manhood as society has construed it since the Middle Ages; Braudy reads Al Qaeda as the mortal thrashings of a dying order.