Right now, with Madden in the balance, the prevailing interpretation of the law allows abuses to occur.
A sense of Thompson's own history is all the more necessary because prevailing interpretations of the British past have shifted with disorienting speed in the past 20 years or so.
Of course, today the prevailing interpretations of the Constitution for Republicans and their conservative masters is that corporations are people, with as much "freedom" of speech as their untold millions can buy.
Between the mid-1980s and the first decade of the 2000s, the prevailing interpretation of how hadrosaurids processed their food followed the model put forward in 1984 by David B. Weishampel.
Committee chairman Andrew Miller MP said this confused picture had allowed people "who doubt the prevailing interpretation of climate science" to find the situation unsatisfactory.
Before the 1960s and 1970s, the prevailing interpretation of hadrosaurids like Edmontosaurus was that they were aquatic and fed on aquatic plants.
The only participants in Blue's transactions whose activities are not strictly covered by prevailing interpretations of state law are couriers, or mules, who usually transport marijuana in airtight containers in the trunk, seats, or tires of a car.
By the 1930s Holmes's opinion had become the prevailing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, and legislation such as maximum-hours laws was held to be constitutional.
Again, the same commitment, and in particular Herder's consequent rejection of unwarranted allegorical interpretations, allowed him to substitute for the prevailing interpretation of the Song of Solomon as religious allegory an interpretation of it as simple erotic love poetry which is today generally accepted as correct.
Nonetheless, that is the prevailing interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and there is no possibility that the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court will change it.
Often, districts with large fractions of racial minorities have been drawn to allow racial minorities to elect a candidate of their choosing thereby ensuring that new district maps conform to prevailing interpretations of the VRA.
