Thus, test questions are construed as a direct threat to face.
The answer depends once again on how the question is construed: the word "meaning" is an equivocal term that can itself mean many different things.
But, notwithstanding the strong general presumption in favor of the validity of state laws, we do not think the statute in question, as construed and applied in this case, can be sustained as a legitimate exercise of that power.
926, 59 L.Ed. 1340, L.R.A.1916A, 1124; require that the Indiana statute in question, as construed and applied in this case, be held void as contravening the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that the judgment under review be reversed accordingly.
Quine recognizes that the question, thus construed, is not exactly what earlier epistemologists had in mind, but argues that the change is justified: "A far cry, this, from the old epistemology.
No one knows how broadly the "crime" in question should be construed.
If the acts in question are so construed the result would be, as the District Court said, that the number of votes needed to sustain a presidential vetoone-third plus one would be all that was needed to bring into operation the new and awesome power of a President to declare war.
It has been argued that question meanings as construed by proposition set theories are all too coarse-grained to account for certain linguistic phenomena.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should start off by saying that I think our society is a bit overly reliant on pills (of all types), and that I am, generally speaking, not a big fan of taking pills for all ills, so my answer to your question could be construed as biased.
My introductory column was about the punctuation of "How do you do" (no question mark required when construed as a statement rather than a question), rather than the etymology of Eureka! the exclamation attributed to the Greek scientist Archimedes when he discovered the way to determine the purity of gold.
