The interpretation of contractual obligations was "exactly where the trouble lies" in the Connecticut Community Bank case, she said.
"Our decision not to distribute the research was based on our interpretation of our obligations under the securities law and our desire to continue to play a role on behalf of our clients after the stock begins trading," he said.
Certain prominent theologians, however, among them ash-Shāfiʿī (d. 820), forbade the use of istiḥsān altogether, fearful that true knowledge and correct interpretation of religious obligations would suffer from arbitrary judgments infused with error.
Another British official, speaking to The New York Times outside Afghanistan, said Britain's interpretation of its obligations under the Geneva Conventions and international law requires that any captured person's status as a prisoner of war must be determined by a tribunal before he or she is held in British custody or turned over to the United States.
These quotes suggest that both the transparent nature of the interaction and the clear link between input (i.e. funding) and results (i.e. access to treatment) have helped shaped the interpretation of the obligation.
The demands from Fannie and Freddie, the bank says, "have become increasingly inconsistent with our interpretation of our contractual obligations".
Instead, it has replaced them with a "self-contained statutory framework" setting out Australia's own interpretation of its protection obligations under the refugee convention.
"The government's narrow interpretation of its transparency obligations under USA FREEDOM is inconsistent with the language of the statute and Congress' intent.
"So we, the diplomats, were talking to the intelligence community at that time about our interpretation of our treaty obligations.
He has ordered new legislation to limit the role of judges in the interpretation of international human rights obligations and re-assert the primacy of parliament".
