reconstrue

Thus it is that every subsequent promulgation or other effort to rewrite and/or reconstrue American history, the Constitution, the treaties we have signed for any purpose whatsoever is by definition the perpetration of deliberate fraud.

The US was NEVER intended to be Christian. Herein is the Documented Truth. 2007

Sometimes she can reinterpret or reconstrue standard realist arguments and positions in a way that allows her to adapt or co-opt them, but this is not always the case.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

In defending the (relativized) realist face of some species of normative relativism -- particularly the more global versions like normative relativism with respect to epistemic standards, truth, or reality -- the relativist can sometimes reconstrue or reinterpret realist views about these things with a relativistic spin.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

Instead, they have sent it back to the Massachusetts legislature to come up with a solution in 180 days, and to reconstrue the Massachusetts statute that governs marriage to ensure that gay and lesbian couples are afforded the same rights and protections.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2003 2003

Something like it lingers on, not only among some theologians who propose to reconstrue religious language in such a way that it no longer refers to God but also in the Wittgensteinian fideism of D.Z. Phillips and others, which is a sort of continuation of positivism by other means.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

This suggestive work with its many layers of meaning seems to incorporate, interpret and reconstrue major existential questions, death, time, love and reality.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 - Press Release 1990

If a high-level court of appeals were to reconstrue the meaning of tenure, all bets would be off.

Inside Higher Ed 2010