Sentence examples for they construed from inspiring English sources

They believed their companies to be consecrated to what they construed as the national interest, and to deserve, in turn, the nation's unequivocal support.

Mamet, speaking of Pinter and Beckett, said, "They did what few dramatists have done in modern times: they construed the drama not as the interplay of ideas but as the interplay of sounds.

Diplomats here said the Israelis appeared to be upset not only by the absence of military experts, but by the presence of forensic experts and lawyers and by language used by Mr. Annan that they construed as suggesting that the mission might be expanded to areas other than Jenin.

Just as they construed human beings as physical creatures animated by a physical soul, so too they regarded God as the mind of the world with the cosmos as his body.

It was out of this toxic mix of convictions and aspirations that particular Europeans set about constructing racialized, rank-ordered philosophical anthropologies through which they construed a continent of diverse peoples as a single "race" of "Africans" or "Negroes".

"On a few labels they construed the meaning to be the exact opposite of what was meant," says Michael Wolf, a researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and coauthor of the soon-to-be-published study.

"They construe them as new".

They are liberal in what they do and conservative in what they construe as acceptable behavior from others.

That's the section where they construe the statute in view of these ambiguities and so forth.

"We ask how they construe statutes, how do they resolve disputes and what do they believe is the appropriate role of judges".

Social media, too, tend to make us more holistic, because they construe the airing of political views as an act of friendship.