Sentence examples for were construed to from inspiring English sources

To redress the current trappings of the recorded music marketplace, including the precipitous drop in sales and retail prices world-wide, the last thing that will make any difference is joint action by the labels over wholesale prices, even if this behaviour were construed to be legal.

The remaining missing values were construed to have been omitted at random and were replaced by means.

"We were doing nothing that can in any way be construed to be illegal," she said.

But I realized later that what he had said could be construed to mean almost anything.

The federal law is ambiguous, Chief Justice Roberts said, and ambiguities should be construed to favor criminal defendants.

The enunciation herein of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or impair others retained by the people.

My husband had suggested the phrases — "amazing" and "astonishing" being words that can be construed to mean almost anything.

Under an article in the NATO treaty, an attack on one member can be construed to be an attack on all.

Nothing in this order shall be construed to limit the authority of any such governmental authority to prosecute any individual for whom control is transferred.

When I asked the research director and project director whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no.

It also states that nothing in the measure should be "construed to diminish any rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution".