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as
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There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire.
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But it can be interpreted as stating that on average there is more variety in the trading equilibrium than in autarky.
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This semantic shift should not necessarily be interpreted as indicating a decline in nationalism or racism.
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Unfortunately the resulting diagram is not so easy to interpret as are some of the other forms of chart.
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This could be interpreted as weak and lacking authority; it could equally be interpreted as polite and considerate.
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Is it then the case that no group of these fundamental quantitative propositions of science can be interpreted as stating causal connections?
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This has been interpreted as increasing arousal to levels incompatible with that task.
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Recall that the summation convention requires the right-hand side of this equation to be interpreted as .
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action
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However, interpreting their actions nowadays suggests to us that this is not altogether true.
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The referee has to see and correctly interpret extremely fast actions .
attempt
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His genuine desire to make up may be interpreted as an attempt to embarrass or be-little.
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Some have interpreted it as an attempt to win Hispanic votes at the expense of military readiness.
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They were interpreted as an attempt to create a wider market in cultivated land.
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It is likely that the move will also be interpreted as an attempt by the nuclear industry to renew its fading influence.
behaviour
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Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of domesticated horses, and reveals it as being much the same as their wild ancestors.
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Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of farm animals.
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Jealousy is a label here that merely interprets that behaviour .
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The mating behaviour of pied flycatchers is immensely complicated and scientists studying them interpret their behaviour slightly differently.
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They sometimes find it difficult to see other people's point of view and to interpret other people's behaviour .
change
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Wilson waited, not sure how to interpret the sudden change of atmosphere.
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The long-wave framework, therefore, has considerable appeal for interpreting modern structural change .
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His parents welcomed him, assuming he was back for an indefinite stay and perhaps interpreting this as a change of heart.
court
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It is for the courts to interpret those words soas to give effect to that purpose.
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The Constitution, and the courts that have interpreted it, posit rights to liberty, privacy and equal protection.
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The court in interpreting the clause, leans against the seller.
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The court said the government interpreted the federal law so loosely that it usurped Congress' authority.
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Then the courts interpret such phrases soas to give themselves more or less control as they wish.
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The decision in 1949 to establish a court to enforce and interpret the Constitution was a historical act of revenge on Bismarck.
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Apart from adding a gloss to the section, the courts have had to interpret the actual wording.
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Despite this, the effectiveness of the newly amended s.62 will depend largely on how the courts decide to interpret it.
data
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The briefing sheet also provides help in interpreting the data .
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They must understand finance and information systems, and be able to interpret data .
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It interprets the data and provides summary reports to the client running the program.
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These include classifying, observing, predicting, inferring, hypothesizing, interpreting data , and measuring.
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Ching-Hon Pui was a principal investigator of the leukaemia treatment protocols and interpreted the data .
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Even when some superstar analyst discovers a winning way to interpret data , others follow, and the method becomes obsolete.
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Psychologists and physiologists have always been resigned to using statistical analyses to extract meaning from and interpret their data .
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Some one else would then interpret the data and write reports.
difficulty
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Discussion Meta-analysis increases the statistical power of tests but does not eliminate causes of bias and difficulties in interpreting the results.
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The difficulties of interpreting the law are shown by a number of cases that have arisen.
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Volatile and unpredictable exchange rates result in difficulties in interpreting the market's signals.
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Souquet etal also emphasised the difficulty in interpreting parietal thickening in patients evaluated after radiation therapy.
event
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But it is impossible for him in his findings not to interpret events .
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Alexander had a knack for interpreting events around him.
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How was he to interpret these events ?
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Seligman and other researchers and practitioners insist that you can have control over how you explain and interpret life events .
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The person prone to depression has a tendency to interpret events negatively.
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Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.
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The press was at first unhelpful in either explaining or interpreting the events .
evidence
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Such information helps archaeologists to interpret excavated evidence more accurately.
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Certain Martian surface features have been interpreted as evidence of ancient ocean beds and widespread glaciation.
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This was interpreted as evidence of discomfort and distress.
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Because of the underlying sense of grievance numerous situations could have been interpreted as yet further evidence of white imperialism.
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Some critics have interpreted this as evidence that he finds the human body disgusting, but the opposite is true.
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Marxists, on the other hand, interpret the same evidence the other way round.
experience
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They should be able to interpret their experience and assurance in the light of the revealed truths of the gospel.
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Answers about personal qualities and abilities are harder to interpret , although experience does make it easier.
form
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The skills pupils need are the strategies of problem solving; interpreting mathematical forms and statements; representing situations mathematically.
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By comparison, functionalism has often been interpreted as a form of ruling class ideology.
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Racism is interpreted as a form of displacement and objectification deriving from unhealthy neuroses and personality traits.
information
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However, even when this is achieved, there may still be problems in interpreting what this information means.
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You have little chance of consistently interpreting information in a superior way.
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A water quality officer interprets the information and can instruct Cyclops to collect a sample of the discharge in a sealed container.
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Management accountants are to analyze and interpret the financial information corporate executives need to make sound business decisions.
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It is therefore important to understand the causes of individual differences in children's abilities to interpret non verbal information correctly.
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Rather, people interpret and retain media information selectively to reinforce their existing attitudes.
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They learn to use a variety of different methods of gathering information for themselves and then to interpret that information.
law
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A solicitor can interpret the law for you and help you take advantage of your full legal entitlement to reliefs and allowances.
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That background could mean that you have the ability to interpret complex laws regarding employee rights.
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Umpires must interpret the bad light law correctly for the sake of the crowd.
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The court said the government interpreted the federal law so loosely that it usurped Congress' authority.
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If circumstances arise which are not fully covered, the judge must interpret law and principles accordingly.
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The difficulties of interpreting the law are shown by a number of cases that have arisen.
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It is also important for balance when interpreting laws .
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They could interpret the word law in a more pragmatic or policy oriented sense.
meaning
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A good counsellor helps them to interpret the meaning behind the words each speaks.
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And they interpret that as meaning that whatever happens in the money market exporters should still retain some of their current advantage.
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Confusion between the sources of faunal diversity could easily lead to mistakes in interpreting its meaning .
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This could be interpreted as meaning that the Act applies to the activity duty.
move
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Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons.
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Franco interpreted this move , not as a gesture of diplomatic expediency, but as a demonstration of western approval.
result
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Several potential limitations should be considered in interpreting the results of this study.
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I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
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Discussion Meta-analysis increases the statistical power of tests but does not eliminate causes of bias and difficulties in interpreting the results .
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However, the results generated in the output file will logically be interpreted with the same results.
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This should be kept in mind in interpreting the results .
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In such circumstances one would have to be very careful about interpreting the results of Turing tests.
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We can not be sure of how to interpret the results .
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One is that latent inhibition should not be interpreted as being the result of a loss of stimulus associability.
rule
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This general approach to drafting carries the risk that the rule will be difficult to interpret .
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McGehee advocates the creation of an independent Office of Ethics Counsel to interpret the rules , investigate complaints and recommend sanctions.
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We suggest ten golden rules for exam revision, but like all rules, they need to be interpreted flexibly.
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Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule.
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That apparently has resulted in lobbyists interpreting the rules on their own.
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Initially, we had interpreted the rule as requiring production of the Report itself.
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The Chair, interprets and enforces the rules of the meeting.
sign
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For the benefit of the deaf members present the Dean's and all subsequent speeches were interpreted into sign language.
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Indeed, a request for more precision would likely be interpreted as a sign of immaturity or inexperience.
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He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial, and so she poured it on.
signal
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This experiment showed how important learning can be in interpreting a signal .
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Volatile and unpredictable exchange rates result in difficulties in interpreting the market's signals .
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This system could interpret the nerve signals precisely enough to pick up the fine arm movement needed to land a plane safely.
text
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A feminist might interpret a text very differently from an army officer, for example; or a teenager from his parent.
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This was supposed to be an upper-level class, and the students seemed unable to interpret a perfectly simple text .
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They naturally assume coherence, and interpret the text in the light of that assumption.
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Cultural acts and rituals could be interpreted as texts which reveal the sense of a society's ordering and structuring of experience.
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There must always be a danger in interpreting an ambiguous text .
way
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This can be interpreted in two ways .
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Even when some superstar analyst discovers a winning way to interpret data, others follow, and the method becomes obsolete.
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The second way to interpret the story carries little Messianic significance at all.
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There are two main ways of interpreting them and these will be discussed below.
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Recent developments in game theory have had an important impact on the way we interpret these models.
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This regular correlation influences the way we interpret statements in academic papers.
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But there are two ways of interpreting the high level of agreements being reached between farmer and park authority.
ways
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This can be interpreted in two ways .
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There are two main ways of interpreting them and these will be discussed below.
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But this us to ignore wider questions relating to visual communication amid ways in which we interpret photographs.
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But there are two ways of interpreting the high level of agreements being reached between farmer and park authority.
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I am now going to offer you five ways of interpreting the cross.
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In the next section we will examine union policies on this issue and the ways they have been interpreted in signed agreements.
word
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It is for the courts to interpret those words soas to give effect to that purpose.
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Today we interpret the word axiom differently.
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This is probably true; but we can now see that we must not interpret this word magic too uncritically.
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They could interpret the word law in a more pragmatic or policy oriented sense.
■ VERB
help
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Such information helps archaeologists to interpret excavated evidence more accurately.
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He is counseled by a sports psychologist who helps him interpret and banish negative, self-defeating feelings.
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A good counsellor helps them to interpret the meaning behind the words each speaks.
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The counsellor is helped in interpreting this complex situation by the generality of family behaviour.
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Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.
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It was written to help students interpret the results of their fieldwork by providing the essential background information.
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We have presented guidelines to help decision makers interpret league tables as currently presented.
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We use this information to help us interpret our surroundings and the events we observe or participate in.
need
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The central set of skills which are needed are interpreting , translation and the complementary skills for service providers.
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Process control has reams of output data that need organizing and interpreting .
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We suggest ten golden rules for exam revision, but like all rules, they need to be interpreted flexibly.
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All tests on products for overseas markets need to be interpreted with caution.
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And in general, student opinion needs to be interpreted with caution.
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It needs another stage to interpret its output and locate the zero-crossing it may have encoded.
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A distance scale is needed in interpreting the coordinates and this is what the metric equation provides.
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Figures also need to be interpreted .
try
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If you try and interpret the public mood, you become a bit of a slave.
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No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them.
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And, gazing back, Pumfrey tried to interpret , from his expression, the implications of that last remark.
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It is indeed dangerous to try to interpret the facts of history in the light of a modern theological problem.
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And since I have that type of handicap, I try to interpret it as best as I can.
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To understand brain and behaviour means rejecting that dichotomy and instead trying to interpret the intertwined dialectic of specificity and plasticity.
understand
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The emphasis here is on the individual's capacity to understand and interpret what other individuals mean by their social actions.
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Participation is in essence really only a refinement on the methods used to reflexively understand and interpret in everyday life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An artist has as much right to interpret history as a historian.
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During lunch, Ben interpreted for Sasha, who didn't speak a word of English.
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Fairy tales can be interpreted in several different ways.
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For the school's deaf students, she interpreted the entire play in American Sign Language.
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How would you interpret her letter? Is she really hostile or just being ironic?
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I interpreted her silence as anger.
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I had to interpret for my boss on the last trip to Japan.
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No one in our tour group spoke Spanish so we had to ask the guide to interpret .
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The data has not yet been interpreted.
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The statement was interpreted as a threat against the United States.
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They are worried that the workers might interpret the new law as a restriction of their rights.
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This dream can be interpreted in several different ways.
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We'll have to find someone who speaks Chinese to interpret the questions and answers for our guests.