Sentence examples for if construed from inspiring English sources
But he said the provisions on Jerusalem "if construed as mandatory rather than advisory, impermissibly interfere with the president's constitutional authority to formulate the position of the United States, speak for the nation in international affairs and determine the terms on which recognition is given to foreign states".
If construed broadly, the claims could cover a lot of networked crowdsourcing.
If construed to exclude from interstate commerce wholesome food products that demonstrably are neither injurious to health nor calculated to deceive, they are repugnant to the Fifth Amendment.
We have no occasion to consider the issues of fact or to determine whether the Alabama statute if construed as suggested is obnoxious to the Federal Constitution.
Petitioner defended on the ground that these statutes, if construed to impose taxes on such sales, are repugnant to the federal Constitution.
Moreover, if construed to derogate from the traditional liberality of the writ of habeas corpus, see pp. 78, supra, § 2244 might raise serious constitutional questions.
If so construed, would the act be constitutional?
We would make a violent break with history if we construed the Act of 1862 to give such a bounty.
Even if "somehow construed as racial," the unsigned 2-to-1 decision went on, "the comments were ambiguous stray remarks" that were not proof of employment discrimination.
* * * the statute may be applied to new situations not anticipated by Congress, if, fairly construed, such situations come within its intent and meaning.
"I will try to avoid it, as I did the first nomination," he said, but added that if he construed it as a personal duty, as defined by his Islamic faith, then he would run.
