Article IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Surely the signers of the Constitution did not intend a document which, even in wartime, would be construed to take away the franchise of any of those who are fighting to preserve the Constitution itself.
This means that the law as construed by the Supreme Court is such that the business of the country can not be conducted without breaking it.
The danger of creating a monopoly of ownership in lands under the statutes as construed is nothing.
This statute as construed by the Supreme Court must continue to be the line of distinction for legitimate business.
It is inevitable that daily familiarity with danger will lead men to take chances that can be construed into negligence.
The act of Congress extending to Alaska the mining laws of the United States contained the reservation that it should not be construed to put in force the general land laws of the country.
On the Continent, my name and writings were slowly diffused; a French translation of the first volume had disappointed the booksellers of Paris; and a passage in the third was construed as a personal reflection on the reigning monarch.
Even an act which might be construed as disrespect to her father was justified in her eyes, because she was vainly striving to fill out this larger conception of duty.
Any attempt that the individual woman formerly made to subordinate or renounce the family claim was inevitably construed to mean that she was setting up her own will against that of her family's for selfish ends.
A proceeding of this kind, out of the usual course, would be likely to be construed into an argument of timidity or of weakness, and would have a tendency to embolden guilt.
The power of coinage has been so construed by Congress as to levy a tribute immediately from that source also.
From this circumstance, and from the reason of the thing, it ought to be construed to extend to the State tribunals.
The withdrawal of the Italian delegates was construed as an act of insubordination, and punished as such.
But in the meanwhile it was construed as an affront to their intelligence and a violation of the promise made to them of "open covenants openly arrived at.
The failure was construed as an inauspicious omen and it caused the spirits of many to droop.
He was right, but disappointing, they observed, when he told his fellow-citizens that his presence in Europe was indispensable in order to interpret his conceptions, for no other rational being could have construed them thus.
And it soon became clear that most of their utterances like that about open covenants were to be construed according to the maxim of lucus a non lucendo.
And so it wasconstrued by the sullen lack-alls who prowled about the streets of Paris and told one another that their turn would come soon.
His explanation, however, was construed as a courteous conventionality, and as such was accepted.
To demand a fair share of them as guerdon for having saved Europe, and to put in her claim at a moment when Europe was being reconstituted, could not have been construed as imperialism.
Clemenceau gave what was currently construed as a nominal assent, but for a long time they had no inkling of Mr. Wilson's intention to interweave the peace conditions with the Covenant.
And once again he urged the President to refrain from any utterance which might be construed as a pretext for retaliation by the allies.
But, by and by, the Angel suddenly construed this behavior of mine into contempt.
She was intensely averse to anything that could be construedas a flirtation, even of the mildest, he could certainly see that.
I understand that a "lithographic print" is a proper term; but I understand that that word "print" might be construed as not broad enough to cover a lithographic print.
It will be, at best, years before these can be judiciallyconstrued so that they may be generally understood.
Even more than the present statutes, it leaves to the courts to determine the meaning and extent of terms already construed by the courts.
It might possibly be in a print; but a print might be construed by the courts to be something in which type and ink, or a plate and ink, is used.
I think that sale, whether a public or private sale of the painting, and the public exhibition of the painting, should be construed as a publication.
A recurving ridge, however, which has an appendage connected with it in the line of flow and on the delta side cannot be construed as a circuit.
A recurving ridge, however, which has an appendage connected with it in the line of flow cannot be construed as a circuit.
The part of the circuit in front of the right delta, however, cannot be construed as a recurving ridge because of the appendage abutting upon it in the line of flow.
Not yet was my Wandering Jew rightlyconstrued for me.
But, independent of outward show, his blackguard impudence of address was construed into honourable bluntness becoming his supposed military profession; his hectoring passed for courage, and his sauciness for wit.
These memoranda, properly stated to the privy council, cannot but beconstrued into an aggravated riot, in which the dignity both of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities stands committed.
At any rate, he will give him such a bullying as will be construed into an assault on a privy councillor; so there will be a total breach betwixt him and government.
The hasty judgment of the people construed a single victory as proof of their superior capacity for war, and the defeat of McDowell's army was attributed to the cowardice of his volunteers.
But there was no good reason that it should have been so literally construed as to leave the division unsupported.
This order had been issued without reference to General Johnston, Jackson's immediate superior, and so marked a departure from ordinary procedure could not possibly be construed except as a severe reflection on Jackson's judgment.
It was presumably in these circumstances that an agreement was imagined which, construed as a condition of a covenant, assumed to have been made with Abraham, was further assumed to have been renewed to Moses.
The labour of creating was construedas a blemish on the splendour of the Supreme.
The forms of matter and of man, the glittering apsaras of the vermillion dawns, Indra himself, these and all things else were construed into a bubble that Brahm had blown.
Not a word, not a look, not a gesture or sign, that could by the most sensitive of persons be construed as a display of their superiority.
Callous and unappreciative characters have abused such hospitality, and construed it as a mark of ignorance on the part of the Boer.
Their services in the interests of peace were, however, not appreciated, but were construed into acts calculated to encourage the enemy and to foster rebellion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "construed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
