Seeking to interpret mou as broadly as possible, this earlier interpretation also took it to cover both affirmative and negative sentences.
The ruling reversed an earlier interpretation, which had concluded, erroneously, that Iraqi insurgents were not protected by international law.
When an interpretation of something as human or humanlike is replaced by an interpretation of it as nonhuman, the earlier interpretation can be understood as anthropomorphism.
Literally, Europa is now thought to have meant "Mainland," rather than the earlier interpretation, "Sunset".
The dissenters, Justices David H. Souter, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, said the decision stood the court's earlier interpretation of the statute "on its head" and would invite the "easy circumvention" of the sponsors' purpose.
But Dr. Susman, who recently returned from a visit to the Witwatersrand paleontologists, said he suspected that Dr. Clarke, in an earlier interpretation, had overemphasized the Sterkfontein individual's strong chimplike anatomy and behavior.
By working around the A.T.F.'s earlier interpretation, the Justice Department essentially said that the statute had not changed, but that it could now be read in a different way.
The Court of Appeals nevertheless affirmed Stinson's sentence, adhering to its earlier interpretation that the crime in question was categorically a crime of violence and holding that the commentary to the Guidelines is not binding on the federal courts.
Much of the geographic and historical material on Japan's earlier years is drawn from his renowned study The Japanese, but the present book deepens and broadens that earlier interpretation: our knowledge of Japan has increased enormously in the intervening decade and our attitudes have become more ambivalent, while Japan too has changed, often not so subtly.
The appeals court had followed its own earlier interpretation of the federal statute, the Telecommunications Act.
Thermal parameters and geological data are collated based on previous studies concerning their compilation and earlier interpretation.
