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  • verb Present participle of construe.

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Examples

  • Rewriting the Constitution might remove some limiting provisions, but consider then the sense of originalism as it may be focused upon years later in construing a rewritten constitution, with so much more documentation regarding original intent, original meaning, original understanding, original whatever du jour, for scholars to consider?

    Balkinization 2006

  • Shouldn't consideration be given to subsequent events and experiences in construing the Constitution with the passage of time rather than being locked in the time frame of hundreds of years ago?

    Balkinization 2006

  • As noted above, the Reagan and Bush Administrations made frequent use of Presidential signing statements, not only to declare their understanding of the constitutional effect of the statutory language, but also to create evidence on which the courts could rely in construing such language.

    More on Presidential Signing Statements 2006

  • As noted above, the Reagan and Bush Administrations made frequent use of Presidential signing statements, not only to declare their understanding of the constitutional effect of the statutory language, but also to create evidence on which the courts could rely in construing such language.

    Presidential Signing Statements 2006

  • I have silently assumed Foucault's earlier definition of "genealogy" in construing the term in this passage, firstly because nothing in the passage otherwise explicates the term.

    Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality 2006

  • For now, I simply don't want everyone to simply assume the truth of the oft-heard canard that OLC's proper role in construing the law is to press as hard as possible in the direction of presidential prerogatives.

    Balkinization 2006

  • "Come hither, ye faithful," literally construing the Latin words.

    The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873

  • in construing a definition which focuses on a device designed to prevent or inhibit the infringement of copyright, it is important to avoid an overbroad construction which would extend the copyright monopoly rather than match it.

    Oz Mods and Bill C-60 2005

  • Yet that broader context itself concerns sex, inasmuch as the word “sex” provides an apposite example of textual opacity — that is, of the reader’s inescapable agency in construing meaning from contextual markers.

    AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2006

  • (P. 11ξ) we have mentioned the idea of construing

    Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

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