Sentence examples for we construed from inspiring English sources

We disdained formalities like birthdays, graduations, even Christmas and Mother's Day, which we construed as cheap come-ons from merchants to do more business.

And with negations of conditionals and conditionals in antecedents, we saw, the problem is reversed: we assert conditionals which we would not believe if we construed them truth-functionally.

We construed branch lengths as the count of unambiguous changes plus one (to correct for seven terminal zero length branches).

While central review of MRI was not feasible, we construed response from the serial MRI reports, which were read by independent radiologists from each center.

We construed a subscale for each of the proposed four sub dimensions of institutionalization; see Additional file 1. Institutionalization of Skills (8 items): this subscale centers on cultivating and evaluating required skills.

'Can't we construe a communist government (in East Timor) as self-defence?' he asked.

The stories we construe are crucial to our expectation of the world".

In the absence of such a definition, we construe a statutory term in accordance with its ordinary and natural meaning.

What if our own interest, as we construe it, consists of refusing what others want of us?

First, what we construe as obsessive compulsion was, to his friends, a never-failing fount of hospitality, and, for every Carroll scholar who regards the man as unhappily clenched and inward, there is another who will stress the sociable soul, quite at ease in a zealously sociable age.

Kellert's position hangs partly on how we construe theories.