Sentence examples for i construed from inspiring English sources
I construed their refusal as a lack of willingness to lend money to Jewish Wall Street while they were funding multibillion-dollar financing for LBOs in the '80s and early '90s.
What Ms. Jerrell may call a lack of political unity at Bonnaroo, I construe as a covert political message, one in which my generation aspires to bring peace and understanding through shared interests and goals.
I construe all these bad micros as mildly recessionary.
"Like Frege and Russell I construe a proposition as a function of the expressions contained in it".
If someone insults me and I become angry, his impertinence will be the aspect of his behavior that fits the formal object of anger: I only become angry once I construe the person's remark as a slight; the specific nature of my emotion's formal object is a function of my appraisal of the situation.
That's never been the way I've construed it.
"You are precise," she continued, which I initially construed as a compliment intended to interrupt the flow of criticism until she elaborated.
(I still construe the word "media" as plural in hopes that McCain will get off his duff and Bush will awaken).
Accordingly, in discussing Jones in relation to Frege and Russell, I will construe The Law of Significant Assertion as a doctrine concerning identity sentences sentences of the form a is b (where a and b are names, demonstratives or descriptions and is functions accordingly as the is of identity, not predication)—and not as a claim about subject-predicate sentences generally.
In the middle of his analogy to me about his own personal crash and the country's need to heal itself, Beck looked at his publicist with a flash of alarm about how I might construe what he was saying.
