Sentence examples for literal wording from inspiring English sources

Black put forward the theory of "originalism", meaning that the literal wording of the constitution should form the basis for judicial decisions.

May I lie on a poll if I think it will help the candidate I support, or am I ethically obligated to answer truthfully to the literal wording of each question?

The literal wording is thus a flat prohibition against the federal judiciary's entertainment of suits against even a consenting State brought by citizens of another State or by aliens.

However, we carefully pointed out that the Indiana Supreme Court had previously held as a matter of state law that the statute's literal wording did not foreclose a second change of venue.

The Board held, following its construction of the statute in Upholsterers Frame & Bedding Workers Twin City Local No. 61, 132 N.L.R.B. 40, that 'by literal wording of the proviso (to Section 8(b)(4)) as well as through the interpretive gloss placed thereon by its drafters, consumer picketing in front of a secondary establishment is prohibited.' 132 N.L.R.B. 1172, 1177.

It limited the scope of many patents to the literal wording that describes the invention.

Generally speaking, a fundamentalist denomination teaches the inerrancy of the literal Bible, word for word, because it is divinely written or inspired.

You get the literal words, but not the poetry".

To him, it is the literal word of God and a holy object.

"The literal word is 'drawers'," says Willem, who is fluent in English as well as French.

Rabbi Hertz's work countenanced no doubt that the Torah was the literal word of God.