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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
accordingly
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References in the Code to exempt fund managers are construed accordingly .
as
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Was any attack on them to be construed as national treason?
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Invariably, these family definitions, whatever their content, are construed as positive by those that subscribe to them.
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Besides, the words could be construed as flirtatious, and she didn't want him getting the wrong impression again.
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In dozens of written comments about Brezzo and Rice, not one could be construed as positive or supportive.
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But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
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And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
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According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.
■ NOUN
act
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Lord Reid said that the courts must carry out this task by construing the Act as a whole.
clause
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The courts were generally reluctant to construe an exclusion clause as covering cases of breach of fundamental term or fundamental breach.
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To be sure, this Court has construed the Commerce Clause to accommodate unanticipated changes over the past two centuries.
court
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The court construes it according to its terms and finds that, so construed, it enables tax to be saved or minimized.
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To be sure, this Court has construed the Commerce Clause to accommodate unanticipated changes over the past two centuries.
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There are three rules of construction which the courts might employ when construing a statute.
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It is for the courts alone to construe such legislation.
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Although the position is not entirely clear, it seems that a court construing the terms will take punctuation into account.
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Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.
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The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings, the pleadings and the adjudication.
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The function of the court is to construe and apply the enactments of Parliament.
word
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It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising.
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At one time this requirement was construed broadly, so that words merely precatory were accepted as raising a trust.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, we would construe the guarantee and debenture in the same way that we have construed the mortgage deeds.
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Even a thickening waist, while annoying, can be construed as a viewer problem, to an extent.
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Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.
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Properly construed, it is, we think, a promising theory.
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That role has always been narrowly construed.
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The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
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The way the theory construed its object would determine the nature of the theory itself.