Sentence examples for liberally construed from inspiring English sources

In Krivanek v. Take Back Tampa Political Committee, we said: "We acknowledge that election laws should generally be liberally construed in favor of an elector.

The court said Medicare officials had "failed to apply the correct legal standard," and it cited court rulings in support of the proposition that the Medicare law "is to be liberally construed in favor of beneficiaries".

The opinion also states that "because election laws are intended to facilitate the right of suffrage, such laws must be liberally construed in favor of the citizens' right to vote".

The New Jersey justices, ruling unanimously on Wednesday, said the expired deadline for ballot changes could be overlooked because the state's election laws should be "liberally construed" in favor of "a full and fair ballot choice for the voters of New Jersey".

In remarks that some commentators have criticised, he told her: "There is no mitigation available by reference to the Abortion Act, whatever view one takes of its provisions which are, wrongly, liberally construed in practice so as to make abortion available essentially on demand prior to 24 weeks with the approval of registered medical practitioners".

And the court remaining of the view that the election statutes should be liberally construed to allow the greatest scope for public participation in the electoral process, to allow candidates to get on the ballot, to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly, to allow the voters a choice on Election Day...

The Super Bowl incident could lead to a new record if the fines are applied to each CBS affiliate individually and the number of "incidents" is construed liberally.

canons of construction of federal Indian law, which provide that, inter alia, "treaties should be construed liberally in favor of the Indians".

Congress shelved the report without much debate (except for Madison's objection to Hamilton's formulation of the General Welfare clause, which Hamilton construed liberally as a legal basis for his extensive programs).

Brandeis told Frankfurter that he construed the Constitution liberally where property rights were involved, meaning he seldom voted to strike down laws regulating them, but that laws restricting individual rights required closer scrutiny.

She said that statute was intended to be "strictly construed against" prosecutors and "liberally interpreted in favor" of a defendant.