Sentence examples for that construed from inspiring English sources

Rather, the court engaged in a routine exercise of statutory interpretation that construed the Florida election code according to the Legislature's designated "manner" for choosing electors in a statewide election.

The corrupting influence of a regime that construed resistance to outward conformity as treason was to drive the self inward and to produce, in the world of politics, a land of untruth.

Other factors -- like the readiness to obey orders to kill by unquestioned authorities; the diffusion of responsibility for killing; and the anti-Semitic ideology that was widely embraced in German society and that construed Jews as subhuman and mortally dangerous to Germany -- provide explanations for Nazi violence that are more powerful than that of Athens, and quite possibly sufficient.

Looking at the relational clauses from the perspective of 'domain of attribution' (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014), the number of relational clauses that construed the 'outer experience' (material domain) of the patients was over double the number of clauses that construed the 'inner experience' (semiotic domain) of the patients (Table 10).

(It is nowadays common also to use 'illocute' as a verb meaning 'to perform a speech act.') Austin's reason for using 'force' begins with the observation that, construed as a bit of observable behavior, the communicative significance of an act may be underdetermined by what has been said or observably done.

It is a textualist claim that construes the meaning of the ACA by reading it holistically rather than by focusing opportunistically on a single provision thereof.

However individual justices approach the task, there is no dispute on the court that construing statutes is an essential part of the judicial function.

Therefore it is the configuration of the process and the inherent participants that construes the speaker's experience.

Similar remarks may apply to those theories that construe events as relational tropes [Mertz 1996], or even as higher-order tropes [Moltmann 2013].

Indeed, Frederick Schmitt offers an interpretation of Hume that construes him as giving a reliability theory of justification (Schmitt 2014: 1 and passim).

On the opposite side of the landscape human interaction, social/cultural construction models that construe the landscape as the product of socially instructed human interpretation leave little or no role for biophysical landscape features and processes.