Sentence examples for were being interpreted from inspiring English sources

Those dissenters said the marks that were being interpreted as feathers in the new fossil could be impressions from the dinosaur's skin.

Karzai's words were being interpreted as an attempt to mollify Pakistan ahead of a US-Afghanistan military strategic agreement to be completed within the next few months.

For her part, May took immediate steps to smooth things over with the Bank as soon as it became clear that her comments were being interpreted as an attack on the governor.

The bank also reduced the rates it submitted during the financial crisis because Barclays' managers thought the true, higher rates were being interpreted by the media as evidence that the bank was short of cash.

In place of a stultifying focus on ancient dogmas and ceremonies, there was a return to the actual teachings of Jesus, which were being interpreted in increasingly liberal and egalitarian ways, as evidenced by the words of a popular folk hymn we used to sing, a few lines of which I recount from memory: He sent me to give the Good News to the poor.

Pretesting was used to ensure that items were clearly written and were being interpreted correctly [ 46].

Sharia, An-Na'im says, is a product of fallible human interpretation, even if what is being interpreted are divinely given commands.

"It didn't have significance to the way that's being interpreted right now," he said through the interpreter.

Justice Scalia used the event to repeat criticisms that the Constitution is being interpreted liberally.

Barack Obama's national security strategy is being interpreted as a break with his predecessor's.

Some of the rules — and how they're being interpreted by officials — have caused frustrations.