Sentence examples for strictly construed from inspiring English sources
She said that statute was intended to be "strictly construed against" prosecutors and "liberally interpreted in favor" of a defendant.
The legislation is based on the notion that certain basic, strictly construed restrictions affecting all media content should be allowed.
Judge Blue agreed that "strictly construed" his instructions had not covered that possibility, saying that some things were taken for granted, including, "Don't do anything stupid".
In spite of the fact that the wording of the code, when strictly construed, enables many wrongdoers to escape, India has modified it in only marginal respects.
More strictly construed, the term covers only what has been called "practical criticism," the interpretation of meaning and the judgment of quality.
The ideological antithesis of Warren Court liberals are Reagan-era conservatives like Justice Antonin Scalia, who argue that the Constitution should be "strictly construed" in light of its original meaning.
Because the environmental measures are only weakly correlated with mathematics performance, low and high scores could not strictly be construed as good and bad environments, at least specifically in relation to mathematics ability.
Last Tuesday morning, an appeals court in Washington State ruled in a case involving two toenails removed with pliers, three fingers severed by axe, and whether the word "opportunities," in the law, must be construed strictly in the plural.
Slavery, of course, was wholly abolished from the Constitution in the 1860s with the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, which is why no constitutional scholar today, right, left or center, would argue that the Constitution -- whether construed strictly, loosely, or just right -- condones the institution.
He then held it was a well-established principle that a provision ousting the ordinary jurisdiction of the court must be construed strictly – if such a provision is reasonably capable of having two meanings, the meaning which preserves the ordinary jurisdiction of the court should be taken.
The confidentiality of lawyer-client communications is fiercely guarded by the law and any departure from it in the national security context must be narrowly construed and strictly justified".
