Sentence examples for on a narrow reading from inspiring English sources

A third case, a sad battle over an adopted toddler whose biological father is part-Cherokee Indian, in theory turned on a narrow reading of custody rules.

Although Mr. Maudoodi and Mr. Qutb were not serious thinkers, they could at least offer a coherent ideology based on a narrow reading of Islamic texts.

On a narrow reading, reflective equilibrium encompasses our intuitions about cases and the moral principles we use to explain, organize, critique, and extend such intuitions.

QUESTION FROM PETER LAROSE: I find your take on the Fourth Gospel as "chilly" to reflect a narrow reading.

This declaration on the ability to undertake purely legal work takes a narrow reading of 'according to law'.

But that is a narrow reading.

Judaism, being a highly decentralized system, deliberately allows a wide variation of beliefs, and few Jewish leaders would try to make a case in a secular legislature for the entire Jewish community, particularly one based on a very narrow reading of halacha, or Jewish law.

Mr. Richmond said problems arose "when an authorizer relies on a very narrow reading" of the law.

On this narrow reading Plato would have to offer an account of ordinary thought and talk, i.e., an account of concept acquisition and application, which claims that the concepts so deployed by most of us are derived from ordinary particulars and acquired through our conversations with one another and our sense-perceptions and beliefs about physical objects.

He had pushed an especially narrow reading of disabilities legislation.

Mr. Wang has adopted a much more narrow reading.