Sentence examples for so construed from inspiring English sources

If so construed, would the act be constitutional?

The original section was so construed in Miller v. United States, 1870, 11 Wall.

The two sections must be so construed as to give effect to both, if that be practicable.

As so construed, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the tax violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

(1) That, so construed, it is sufficiently definite and specific to comply with requirements of due process of law.

(3) If the Act is so construed, it violates the Fifth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution.

The First Amendment is not so construed, however, to award merit badges for intrepid but mistaken or careless reporting.

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

So construed, the meaning of an expression, according to Locke, is the idea associated with it in the mind of anyone who knows and understands that expression.

The foregoing appears to me to be the construction which the Committee placed upon its own rules and as so construed it was applied here.

It should be clear from what we have said that the canon requiring texts to be so construed as to avoid serious constitutional problems has no application here.