Sentence examples for who construed from inspiring English sources

He then insisted his use of the blood metaphor was "a very common statement" and that anyone who construed it to be a reference to menstruation was "deviant".

On this the newspaper's sources told it that Facebook's management team had delegated key decisions on whether or not Trump's post constituted hate speech to policy staffers who "construed their task narrowly" yet were also motivated by worries about stoking a conservative backlash.

To those who construed my comment as being anti-gay or homophobic or advancing violence, I'm truly sorry.

Unlike the Prop 8 case where those charged with enforcing the statute chose not to do so and the lower court erroneously brushed aside county officials who construed their duty as doing so, the president here was more careful.

In a follow-up naturalistic study, when progress on a personal goal was absent, participants allocated to process progress at an abstract level experienced greater decreases in mood and expectancy than participants who construed progress concretely.

Epistemology had Socrates, and religion had Aquinas, but the great philosopher of the meat purveying business may be Mr. Ruhalter, an advocate for decency in eating and a fourth-generation butcher who construes his occupation in almost Platonic terms.

As for us workaholic types who construe value with effort expended, the authors conclude: "Our work cautions that such individuals might not only be complicating their lives to end up with objectively worse outcomes, but that their incessant quest of effort could result in dire consequences, from health problems to regret that one missed out on life's simpler pleasures".

But as he talks on, it becomes clear that Sansom's is the disapproval of an expert, not a cynic; a man whose grasp of the period is so broad and deep that he looks with faint bemusement at those who construe it as one long cavalcade of skulduggery and sex.

But just this type of category error seems to be made by those who construe the relevant mental phenomena, including understanding, as inner causal events.[9] Ryle's view is standardly characterised as a weaker or "softer" version of this doctrine (Smith and Jones, 144).

It has also been suggested that individuals who construe goals at a higher level tend to prioritise the value or importance of goals over ease of attainment, whereas those who construe goals at a lower level tend to be more focused on the process by which the goals will be achieved (Freitas et al. 2001).

The movers emanate from God who is construed as the "First Separate Intellect" (Wars, V.3.8, p. 272).