Sentence examples for interpreted to deny from inspiring English sources

It was conveniently interpreted to deny all Indigenous people – except those already on state electoral rolls before 1901 – the vote.

The commission argues that the principles could be interpreted to oppose mixed marriages and could force people to deny their own identity.

This, too, could be interpreted as a free pass to deny access to contraception.

Conservative MPs interpreted the Labour filibustering as a deliberate attempt to deny the electorate a vote on Europe.

"That's not to deny that some early Christians interpreted the story allegorically," he added.

Although the law made no mention of sexuality it was widely, and correctly, interpreted as a licence for business owners or their employees to deny service to gays.

In addition to the impact that fear has on how people interpret events, cognitive errors can lead even the most talented executives to deny otherwise clear evidence that times have really changed.

It may be a mistake to interpret this idea as a nascent contractualism (see Tuck (1993), 178 9) but likewise, it would be a mistake to deny the appeal it would have to later contractualists such as Hobbes.

At a time when belief in witches was commonplace and to deny their existence was heresy, it would have been very easy to interpret any suspicious behaviour or mark on the body as positive evidence of witchcraft.

That interaction was interpreted by some as a sign that Clinton was indeed mounting a presidential campaign and prompted a Clinton spokesman to deny knowledge of what Weiner was talking about.

One is to deny that 'akolouthôn' is to be understood as 'consequences' (in the logical sense) and to interpret it as something more like 'concomitants' in the weaker sense of 'things that go together with one another'.