Sentence examples for the construing from inspiring English sources
verb
To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
- The world must construe according to its wits
With verbal processes, a writer can represent both a subjective experience related to the expression of opinions and emotions and an objective one related to the construing of knowledge in the areas of Literature and Linguistics.
For verbs the inflectional elements can indicate the person, number, gender, mood, tense, and aspect (the construing of events as completed versus continuing).
If the construed premise is accepted, either by the opponent in a dialectical debate or by the audience in public speech, we can draw the intended conclusion.
In United States v. Gooding (1827), the Court construed the elements of the fitting out offense.
The authors construe the intentional component quite narrowly, though: it just refers to the artefact's function, its being a means to realize a certain practical end.
But it wasn't an H-bomb, at least as the panel construed the term.
The Kachins construed the move as an act of "Burmese chauvinism".
No coherent pattern in the differences appeared, either in the nature of the tasks or how the provinces construed them.
The language was legal boilerplate, reserving the right to construe the legislation only as it was consistent with the Constitution.
Nonetheless, the state is urging the justices to construe the law as if it applied only to "intact D & X".
"They come for the wonderful and wild juxtaposition of the highly programmed to the chaotically construed," he explains.
