The Supreme Court said in 2002 that "these terms need to be interpreted strictly to create a demanding standard for qualifying as disabled".
When it finally surfaced and became the topic of European Parliament discussion, opponents complained that it could, if interpreted strictly, lead to censorship and loss of privacy online.
Second, the principle of legality directs that criminal statutes be interpreted strictly and that they not be applied by analogical extension.
Interpreted strictly, the law could mean imprisonment for merely lending a cell phone to an al-Nusra member; Harroun was saying that he had conducted ambushes and fired rocket-propelled grenade launchers with the organization.
But advocate Eleanor Sharpston, one of the senior British members of the judiciary on the Luxembourg court, said the EU directive should be interpreted strictly and that Bougnaoui's dismissal amounted to direct discrimination on those grounds.
The site was not considered criminal because it was interpreted strictly as a communication between the boys who wrote it, Ms. Pirro said, and was therefore protected by the First Amendment.
Nobel's ambiguous stipulation that the literature prize be awarded to the authors of works of an "idealistic tendency" was interpreted strictly in the beginning but has gradually been interpreted more flexibly.
For years Theo Waigel, Germany's finance minister, has insisted that the criteria for assessing countries' fitness for Europe's planned single currency, the euro, must be interpreted strictly.
That could scupper Germany; and also France, which is relying on a one-off payment from France Télécom worth 0.5% of GDP to push it below the 3% limit for 1997.Read carefully, the Maastricht treaty allows plenty of wiggle-room But both Mr Waigel and Mr Kohl have repeatedly stressed that the criteria must be interpreted strictly.
In contrast, U.S. contracts are detailed and are interpreted strictly.
