Sentence examples for literal reading from inspiring English sources

I cannot deny that on a literal reading the statute says what the Court's opinion renders it to say.

Some shelters, such as the Section 357 gambit (see "Section 357"), are built around a clearly distorted, though literal, reading of a code section.

He says he believes in a literal reading of the Bible.

As with "insurance policy," the most literal reading of the text message would seem damning.

Doctors had feared that such practices might be forbidden under a literal reading of the rules.

Still, most scholars do not take a literal reading of the verses as unvarnished history.

By any literal reading of what he said, Mr. Romney broke with conservatives on the substance of their argument, too.

But a close, literal reading of the Constitution's text suggests that the practice may be unconstitutional except in narrow circumstances.

Mr. LaHaye based his books on his own unusual and strictly literal reading of biblical references to the second coming.

One hopes it will awaken to the treacherous consequences of a literal reading of the asylum statute.

At issue was Schillebeeckx's questioning, in dense but academically influential writings throughout the 1970s, of a too-literal reading of the New Testament.