Sentence examples for interpreted the second from inspiring English sources

In 2008, he wrote the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Supreme Court for the first time interpreted the Second Amendment as conferring an individual right to possess a firearm.

He also interpreted the Second Coming in accordance with the literal translation of the original Greek term, parousia ("presence"), suggesting that Christ would come as an invisible presence and that the Parousia, or "Millennial Dawn," already had occurred, in 1874.

A decade ago, the supreme court gave pro-gun advocates a sweeping victory with the Heller and McDonald decisions, which interpreted the second amendment as giving Americans an individual right to possess a gun "unconnected with service in a militia".

Heller was the 2008 decision that for the first time interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting an individual's right to "keep and bear arms," specifically to keep a handgun at home.

Ardern is also less likely to face challenges from the courts than politicians would in the United States, where the Supreme Court has interpreted the Second Amendment as giving people the right to own guns.

Vidrine and other leaders on the rig decided to ignore the continued pressure up the drill pipe, and instead interpreted the second attempt, on the kill line, as a good result.

Successive Supreme Courts have interpreted the First Amendment as keeping most religious expression out of public life.

They interpreted the first draft as positively anti-growth, and suggested changes.

The law does nothing to manage this relationship, and in fact, the Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment to prevent certain regulation of data collection or usage.

"The United States Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the First Amendment to prohibit civil courts from intervening in disputes concerning religious doctrine, discipline or internal organization," the papers said, noting that that is what the church's internal disciplinary procedures are for.

For most of the past half-century, courts interpreted the first part of that clause as a barrier to government action that seemed to treat religious groups more favorably than secular ones, legal scholars said.