How To Use Construe In A Sentence

I was interviewed by your paper last week and feel that some of what I have said was misconstrued in the article.
It will be misconstrued as bribery, which is frowned on in legal circles.
Aristotle construed the deductive stage of scientific inquiry as the interposition of middle terms between the subject and predicate terms of the statement to be proved.
Like Card, I responded legally, by pointing out to him that his actions could be construed as a form of cyberstalking, which is illegal in Michigan.
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Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant: New Musical Express
We've all heard of the term guru, and while it's gotten misconstrued and possibly watered down into a layman's term lately, the original meaning of guru was simple -- one who helped to remove darkness in order to reveal the light. Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher
And yet, we must always be aware of underlying political tensions and sensitivities-where conditionality is construed as interference. Developing CountriesNew Directions
The losses and sacrifices suffered in terms of academic advancement had been construed to be the destiny of life.
This didn't really go down so well because they repeated and misconstrued every word, and she rang me up and abused me.
In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
Prison Service Orders say staff should not wear unauthorised badges or pins, and whatever the reasons for wearing it, the badge concerned could be misconstrued.
Understood in this weak way, it is unexceptionable to construe the interrogative mood as used for asking questions, the imperatival mood as used for issuing commands, and so on. Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent any of said heirs or distributees now of age, or who may become so, or the widow of either of said decedents from proceeding to have his or her share of said estates allowed to him or her, precisely as if this act had not been passed. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Session of 1863-4, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of the Commonwealth.
It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits. Balkinization
So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia. Plato's Shorter Ethical Works
What I was attempting to say (albeit too concise – and more easily misconstrued) was that the woman pictured behind the picket was already being forced to hide herself by her own culture/religion. Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted – muslim | My[confined]Space
Any change in plan would be construed as indecision.
The Transport Licensing Regulations 1950 could not be construed as prohibiting contracts of cartage.
He is, after all, a writer of such clarity that his work can only be misconstrued by an effort of will.
Thus each framework has a definite orientational effect in the lives of men who so construe their morals. RIGHT AND GOOD
We're to avoid any action that could be construed as aiding and abetting a kidnap negotiation, those are our strict instructions from the State Department.
The washing of dishes and the preaching of the word could both be construed as material expressions of devotion.
This change was made because the word ‘commitment’ could be construed as a legally-binding promise of continued financial aid.
Yet even the conservative AR4 arguably supports the term by considering, however soberly, probably consequences that could reasonably be construed as involving the "ravaging" of this or that. RealClimate
Indeed, TBTN and similar forms of activism are becoming construed more as community dividers than builders.
Yes," Westray said dubitatively; "I suppose it couldn't be construed into attempting to outwit her, could it? The Nebuly Coat
When mentioned, it's often to misconstrue the word as meaning "blind obedience to parents" and then to proceed to criticize it.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to annul, limit, impair or otherwise affect in any way the ability of the owner of a copyright in a sound recording to exercise the rights under sections 106 (1), 106 (2) and 106 (3), or to obtain the remedies available under this title pursuant to such rights, as such rights and remedies exist either before or after the date of enactment of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92
Assuming cert is granted, this is going to turn on how broadly the statute’s savings clause for state licensing should be construed. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the SG’s Brief in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria
An attitude construed as enthusiasm when conveyed face to face is indistinguishable from aggression in voice-mail mes-sages or faxes.
Still, the Astropath would remember, and some scholar on the Governor's staff might construe the meaning.
To this end, a theory construes those phenomena as manifestations of entities and processes that lie behind or beneath them, as it were.
The definition's use of words like ‘traitor’ cannot be construed as representations of fact.
The several terms hereinafter mentioned, wherever used in these rules or the regulations of the Commission, shall be construed as follows: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
All difference of opinion is construed as dissidence.
He said paragraph 27 of the draft declaration of the conference which declared that the use of the term indigenous peoples "cannot be construed as having any implications to rights" would undermine the rights of minorities if it was accepted. ANC Daily News Briefing
At worst, he would construe it as an act of such unutterable naivety that it could only be interpreted as being malign in intent. BLACK EAGLES
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In these circumstances, advertisements will be construed as a declaration of intention to hold an auction and not a contract.
Even if it is done in the spirit of goodwill and friendship it could be misconstrued.
He may construe the approach as a hostile act.
Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
I worry that this advice may be misconstrued, especially at a time when the news is full of journalistic imperfections.
Besides the idiocy of thinking that an Amendment that directs a Court to "construe" something a certain way would actually work, it suffers the additional problem that it has NO POLITICAL APPEAL whatsoever. Libertarian Blog Place
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.
Whenever any provision of this Constitution or any law passed pursuant hereto is subject to more than one reasonable meaning or interpretation, it shall be construed in a way that is most favorable to the protection of individual rights as related to the United States, and most favorable to the protection of the rights of the several states as related to the United States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
As I've explained, the Administration bill would purport to "construe" Common Article 3 of Geneva to prohibit only what the McCain Amendment prohibits (and to cut off any judicial review that might overturn that implausible interpretation of Common Article 3). Balkinization
The company's management has long argued that the relationship between ASP and gross margin is tenuous at best and we were cautioned a half dozen times not to "misconstrue" last week's results and declining ASPs. Minyanville
An outsider might misconstrue the nature of the relationship.
When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.
A government had better go to the extreme of toleration than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardise in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
Or if we sent an e-mail about that issue using our computer, it would probably be construed as a misuse of the computer.
The term employee also includes an officer of a corporation.www. law.cornell.edu (a) When used in this title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof - (1) Person The term person shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. WN.com - Financial News
In that tradition, it may be recalled, the crucifixion of Christ is construed as Christianity's repudiation of the earthly and fleshly, to which Dionysian intoxication is the alternative.
Neither the promoter nor its agents can accept responsibility for any discrepancies, inaccuracies or misconceptions given or construed. The Sun
And explaining how to construe a sentence spoils its effect, just as explaining the punch line of a joke does.
Of all our subjects, Thrse may be the easiest to overlook or misconstrue. RIDDLE ME THIS
The difficulty of course is that, where the later contract is intended to supersede the prior contract, it may in the generality of cases simply be useless to try to construe the later contract by reference to the earlier one.
In this context, the relevant principles are that words should be interpreted in the way in which a reasonable commercial person would construe them, and literalism should be resisted in the interpretative process.
His withdrawal can only be construed as a protest.
Is not our modern way of seeing, or not seeing, very much tied to the sealed-off self that we now construe, a somewhat different organ from the semipermeable soul it has replaced? In the Valley of the Shadow
The term flip-flop used in relation to Obama could be construed to be a negative code word for his upbringing in Indonesia, one of the lands of indiginous flip-flop wearing peoples. Barack Obama has not flip-flopped or betrayed his lefty fans. You need to understand: He's a "visionary minimalist."
What may seem helpful behaviour to you can be construed as interference by others.
This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
Her words could hardly be construed as an apology.
He knew everything that every one else had misconceptions about or misconstrued.
Typically, contracts are construed to effectuate the parties' intent - and here, their intent, as expressed, in the contract, was to not get married.
This shift in sensibility toward orality is not a single literary movement, as it has sometimes been misconstrued.
no prudent person will deny that there is need of many supplements and explanations from other writings" than the Bible, to the end, namely, that a person may construe from the German Bibles the true Catholic faith. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
This clause was construed by both Evershed J and the Court of Appeal to include acting as a consultant.
Yet in his statement Bush said he will "construe" an exception, "which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection in a manner consistent ... with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances. BUSH ON CRACK AND SUPERVIAGRA: THE POSTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENHANCEMENT ACT
This could be construed as suborning perjury, a crime.
His sandy hair was parted neatly to one side, and although he could not be construed as handsome, he wasn't bad to look at.
He deliberately misconstrued everything I said.
He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity. Sister Carrie
Yet neither could I construe this history as multivocal or multivalent, as a set of parallel and/or contending voices, narratives, or meanings of Mozambique's past. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
This Option Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties hereto submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England.
My Lords, I venture to doubt whether much help is necessarily to be derived in determining whether a particular term is to be construed as a condition or as an innominate term by attaching a particular label to the contract.
My comments should not be misconstrued to mean that every transaction referred to as a loan by modern finance parlance implicates usury. If it is true, then so be it.
any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed
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Even a thickening waist, while annoying, can be construed as a viewer problem, to an extent.
I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind.
It was construed by others as a challenge to the institution of land markets understood as a lottery, a mode of betting on the results of future population growth.
At one time this requirement was construed broadly, so that words merely precatory were accepted as raising a trust.
He suggested that the regulations previously construed could be said to apply to particular pieces of machinery of an unduly hazardous nature.
Yet many leaders fail to motivate people to achieve results because those leaders misconstrue the concept and applications of motivation .
At a time when even the secret services are bound by the demands of openness and transparency, nobody dares put their name to any demand that might be construed as underhand.
Western explorers construed the presence of wolves as an ominous portent.
The list of avoidable killings not legally construed as murder even in principle could go on and on.
It concerns me greatly that not only was the event misconstrued, but I was personally misquoted.
‘There is legislation which clearly makes it an offence to offer or expose for sale any item which can be construed as obscene,’ the police spokeswoman said.
We often construe inter-state relations in terms of the metaphor of friends and foes, but misleadingly.
We are taught to construe these terms in a particular way.
But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
As far as I could reconstruct it afterwards, there'd been a loud noise in the flat below or above, which my dreaming mind had construed as someone in the bedroom, complete with hypnopompic hallucination of someone sitting on the bed and shaking it. Making Light: Open thread 136
The results of that survey could be construed to mean that post-bailout America is truly 'best symbolized' by a power-sotted corporation that exploits its workers, drains our manufacturing base, hammers our trade deficit, and floods our markets with cheap sweatshop products from China. Al Norman: Consumer Reports Trashes Wal-Mart
According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.
Strangely enough, the rise and persistence of creation myths can be construed as a backhanded way of weaving religion into a consilient overview of evolutionary theory. The adaptive origins of creationist mythology
I am tempted to ask him whether it could not be construed as denunciatory, but decide to leave its interpretation opened-ended and up to the individual viewer.
Privileges are to be construed according to the letter, the interpretation being neither extensive nor restrictive but purely declaratory, that is the words are to be taken only in their full and usual signification. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
It is impermissible to construe the Convention in the light of the changes in civil aviation transport since 1929 and the current domestic law view of mental or psychological injury.
The courts were generally reluctant to construe an exclusion clause as covering cases of breach of fundamental term or fundamental breach.
Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Musta_gh_á_th_, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the God Passes By
Consequently, African societies, religion, and knowledge are assessed from a viewpoint that is often construed as evidence of societies that are "traditional" in the sense that they are inefficient, unchanging, and, at worst, "anti-progress"! Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The courts were generally reluctant to construe an exclusion clause as covering cases of breach of fundamental term or fundamental breach.
The verb "insist" is often construed with "on" or "upon".
But the plea of insanity, with its vague test of responsibility, whose terms the juryman may construe for himself (or which his fellow-jurors may construe for him) offers an unlimited and fertile field for the Courts and Criminals
Normative teleosemantics can be construed as making a similar move: Here, it is those dispositions realizing the biological function of the mechanism of using an expression that determine meaning (where ˜biological function™ is taken to be something normative; cf. Millikan 1990, The Normativity of Meaning and Content
No physiognomist that ever dwelt on earth could have construed The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Looking to context, if you mean "construe", I gather that you (and many other progressives) are not a fan of this "four corners" concept? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
The duty being assigned by the law to the priests (Le 1: 6), was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family. for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests -- that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Here was motive for murder -- if motive were to govern them -- far greater than might be suggested by excited conversation which listeners who could not hear a word construed into a quarrel -- listeners who bore the prisoner at the bar ill-will because he shunned them while in the lumber-camp. The Right of Way — Volume 01
It could be construed as a brave choice because - though you'd never know it from watching him in character - Dimsdale has a noticeable stammer, something that could be seen as a big drawback in a profession where the voice is paramount.
However, the word sech does not exist in the contemporary Dutch language; at best, it could be construed as a phonetic rendering of a certain dialectical mispronunciation of zeg. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
Surely, not every Rodgers and Hammerstein production is to be construed as an expression of Jewishness. Jenna Weissman Joselit: What Is Jewish Culture?
Our chief representative's withdrawal was construed as a protest.
In other words, Congress can go fly a kite as far as trying to control him in matters of National Defense, because he can "construe" the laws anyway he chooses, even construe them as null and void. Presidential Authority (Executive Authority) Is Always Outranked By Duly-Enacted Laws Passed By Congress
What their Honours did was to construe the facts to see in the facts a misrepresentation - not a misleading statement, a misrepresentation.
The notion of level in a hierarchy can be construed in two different ways.
Safety, when construed as the prevention of evil, is achieved by imposing prior restraints on people's conduct.
I hope that I may not be misconstrued into saying that the progenitors of whales did actually possess mouths lamellated like the beak of a duck. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
You may construe the statement of the government spokesman in a number of different ways.
There were no terms in the Renaissance for what, since the eighteenth century, have been construed as essential signs in the body of incommensurable difference.
Nothing in this order shall be construed to derogate from the authority of the Secretary of the Army under the said Executive Order No. 10155. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10303
Nothing in this order shall be construed to derogate from the authority of the Secretary of the Army under the said Executive Order No. 9957. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9971
Alternatively, the verb might be construed with the direct object ‘life’.
Another Labour source said: "We don't want somebody who could be construed as a Labour placeman. Archive 2008-02-01
Their gentleness and sagacity, their kindness to their wives and loyalty to their families has been misconstrued.
The insurers and their amici argue that the rule of construction which directs the court to construe ambiguities in favour of the insured should not apply in the instant case.
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean defended U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday, dismissing as "bloopers" remarks Kerry made that were construed by some to be insulting to American troops. Sound Politics: The gift that keeps on giving
There are also a few examples that can be construed as relativization out of a supplement to the relative clause, which is a mere island violation.
It is permissible, where the context so allows, to construe words used in the plural as including the singular.
The author rejects saltationism as normally construed. Common Descent & Common Design – An Unexpected Outcome
Moreover words are to be construed as generally used in the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
The Legislature shall have power to lay an income tax, and to tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or profession: Provided, that the term occupation, shall not be construed to apply to pursuits either agricultural or mechanical. The constitution of the state of Texas : as amended in 1861 : the Constitution of the Confederate States of America : the ordinances of the Texas convention: and an address to the people of Texas,
Mistakes such as the one I have admitted making are construed as deliberate falsehoods.
The elicitation of such norms of behaviour is likely to have considerable overlap with questions about attitudes and beliefs, since norms and values can be construed as having elements of both.
I tried to articulate this question to Foxman, trying to be careful to not sound anti-Israel myself but conscious of the fact that this ultrasensitive question could be construed as just that. How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment
The term corporation as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and jointstock companies having any of the powers and privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnership, and all corporations shall have the right to sue, and shall be subject to be sued in all courts in like cases as natural persons. Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North-Carolina, at Its Session 1868
Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey criminal defense lawyer who has known Alito since 1981 and tried cases before him on the Third Circuit, describes him as "an activist conservatist judge" who is tough on crime and narrowly construes prisoners 'and criminals' rights. 10/31/2005
The Sports Business Journal story, citing sources, suggested that what Kroenke was attempting in terms of a fee from Khan might be construed as "greenmail," a Wall Street term for payments made to hostile investors to go away. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
The second construes the process as a thing - the verb has been nominalized by means of the ing suffix - consequently, the temporal aspect of the process has been backgrounded.
An enjoinder qualifies that nothing in the Declaration should be construed as authorizing any dismemberment or impairment of the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.
Rather, a construed external image assumes meaning for an organizational member to the extent that it corresponds with the individual's self-definition.
It could be construed as an attack on the ivory trade. Times, Sunday Times
This, then, is an attractive description of the conquests of the Gospel, and so the critical objection falls to the ground which charges that the term Shiloh, if construed as above, is Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Postage stamps were originally construed as prepayment for the service of transporting letters and packages.
Plenty of critics have charted the supposed slide of the cinema incarnation of James Bond into the politically correct Judy Dench's M, his boss, calls Bond a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" in the 1995 film "Goldeneye", and they will doubtless note that in "Carte Blanche" Bond worries that an attractive female South African police office might construe a glance as sexist and is horrified to hear a fellow British agent using the word "coloured" to describe mixed-race South Africans. You Only Live About 23 Times
Posterior Analytics II. 19 is difficult to interpret, and recent philosophers have often found it unsatisfying since (as often construed) it appears to commit Aristotle to a form of apriorism or rationalism both indefensible in itself and not consonant with his own insistence on the indispensability of empirical inquiry in natural science. Aristotle's Logic
Anything less than six months might be construed as a dereliction of duty, given the sickening nature of the incident. Times, Sunday Times
The [federal] omnibus clause is a 'catchall' provision, which is broadly construed to include a wide variety of corrupt methods. Fired US Attorney Calls on White House to "Produce" Bolten, Miers to Congress
The use of private contractors to develop property taken in eminent domain shall not be construed or interpreted as a commercial venture or other prohibited taking, if the final disposition of the property is for the direct use of the People. The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
And I couldn't wait to say that it could be misconstrued as a hatred for someone who they want to berate, which is tantamount to character assassination, because of race, culture and the color of their skin. In Defense of Manny Pacquiao
Yet the First Amendment has been construed to include certain of those rights.
The average for the past three years was 67, and this was construed as an indication that the fox menace was now reasonably under control.
Our chief representative's withdrawal was construed as a protest.
Any such failure should be construed as contempt of court and should therefore attract prosecution of the police officers involved.
The term can be construed in two different ways.
Displaced Midwesterner: Assuming cert is granted, this is going to turn on how broadly the statute’s savings clause for state licensing should be construed. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the SG’s Brief in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria
Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.
Depending on what values are placed on music, disco can be construed as mindless, repetitive, simple music.
The investigating committee is unaware of any conduct by either professor that could reasonably be construed as involving moral turpitude.
Moreover, the rule is highly manipulable, depending, among other things, on how broadly or narrowly a court construes the field in question.
Any old comment I make is immediately construed to be racist by some people.
His behaviour could easily be misconstrued.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, he did could be construed as uncool.
Properly construed, it is, we think, a promising theory.
Or do I misconstrue what you consider to have been a brief show of teeth to enforce some sort of disclosure detante vis-a-vis her prior perfidies? Feinstein Explains Her Reticence* About Panetta Nomination
On the one hand, Pope's symbolic erasure of "Madam Dacier" anticipates her misconstrued legacy.
But we should not be tempted to construe these metaphors literally.
In these circumstances, advertisements will be construed as a declaration of intention to hold an auction and not a contract.
Alchemistry, as normally construed, is a primitive attempt to understand natural substances. Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
Pandemic, an adjective from the Greek pandemos, "of all the people," becomes a noun to mean "the outbreak of a disease spreading over a large geographic area," now construed as "worldwide. The difference between a Pandemic and an Epidemic
Put bluntly, anywhere ‘too different’ falls outside a strictly delimited comfort zone and is construed as both alien and irrelevant.
What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence.
The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the Act named in the title hereof, shall not be so construed Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed in Milledgeville, at an Annual Session in November and December, 1861.
If this kind of political correctness continues, where phrases are misconstrued to make it seem someone has made a racist, agist or sexist remark, I fear all spontaneity will be lost in future interviews and debates. Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
Be polite, and double-check your words so that nothing you say could be misconstrued.
The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
[Footnote 1: The vulgar pronunciation of the word construe is here intended. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
There is a potentially much broader field of work which could be construed as the sociology of knowledge.
Your Honours' task is to construe the statute in the light of the explanation given in the explanatory memorandum if it is conformable with the words.
Nevertheless, the pose would have been construed as ridiculous had it been of an unwary and unsuspecting adult.
Normannorum adventu derelicto proprio vulgari, construere gallice compelluntur; item quod filii nobilium ab ipsis cunabulorum crepundiis ad gallicum idioma informantur. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
Of all our subjects, Thrse may be the easiest to overlook or misconstrue. RIDDLE ME THIS
Mr Purcell said it would be difficult to see how someone could "misconstrue" the Northampton firm for a major film company making multi-million pound spy movies. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Our chief representative's withdrawal was construed as a protest.
Any omission or failure on the part of the Owner's inspector to disapprove or reject any work or materials shall not be construed as an acceptance of any defective work or materials.
I have never misconstrued or misdoubted your affection to our house. The Abbot
When Albertus Magnus refers to resplendence it is usually safe to construe what he says in terms of some form of divine illumination. Dietrich of Freiberg
The verb "insist" is often construed with "on" or "upon".
This should not be construed as a lack of interest in this offer of funding.
I once met a Belgian girl who was forbidden at home to utter the word pudeur ` shame 'because it could be construed as a genteelism for ` genitals.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2
This undertaking is to be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and we agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English High Court of Justice for the purpose of any process for the enforcement hereof.
They were never trusted, their simplest, most innocent acts were misconstrued, their word doubted, and, as in Beverly's case, Miss Woodhull had more than once cruelly baited and insulted them. A Dixie School Girl
While, in the first instance, a consolidating Act is to be construed in the same way as any other, if real doubt as to its legal meaning arises, its words are to be construed as if they remained in the earlier Act.
Construed correctly, this clause of the sentence would mean -- '_I, sorrowfully leaving all places gracious to the Maenalian god_:' but _that_ is not what Lord Wellesley designed: '_I leaving the woods of Cyllene, and the snowy summits of Pholoe, places that are all of them dear to Pan_' -- _that_ is what was meant: that is to say, not _leaving all places dear to Pan_, far from it; but _leaving a few places, every one of which is dear to Pan_. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
He submitted military plans to them, that could be construed as treasonous.

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