"It is a cardinal principle" of statutory interpretation, however, that when an act of Congress raises "a serious doubt" as to its constitutionality, "this court will first ascertain whether a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided".
It is common to think that Aristotle's mention of a problem whether a construction of parallel lines involves a petitio principii refers to debates over whether a parallel postulate is required (Prior Analytics ii.16, Euclid i Post. 5).
The Catalan government has also been weakened by corruption scandals, including a case centering on whether Ferrovial, a construction company, paid kickbacks to local politicians to secure the public-works contract for Barcelona's Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall.
But, as Van Dalen also notices, it is also in effect a rejection of the hypothetical judgement in the general case where one does not know whether there is a construction for A. On this reading, Brouwer's explanation of the hypothetical judgement avoids hypothetical constructions and the concomitant use of logic by considering conditions on constructions instead of constructions themselves.
Whether one runs a construction company or a supply boat company, or operates drilling rigs or is a production operator, one has to answer numerous questions from the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service prior to each step in the field development process.
Somebody in the neighborhood is always engaged in some machine-enabled activity, whether it's a construction project or a "mow, blow and go" crew sprucing up a landscape.
Goldberg's discussion covers many subtle ways in which the scenario communicated affects whether the use of a construction is grammatical and appropriate.
Schur asked urban planners in Claremont, California, whether efforts to turn a construction pit into a park could realistically take several months or longer.
Whereas the room for individual initiative in the learning environment is limited, it could be questioned whether a single construction programme should be a part of an experimental building project that is so complex that the teacher's master status is overturned and the student's ability to act is reduced.
Costa Rica now requires developers to consider whether a new construction project would interrupt an essential corridor, or else to make other arrangements for jaguars to travel safely through the area.
A mathematical context in which PEM is valid, Brouwer points out, is that of the question whether a given construction of finite character is possible in a given finite domain.
