"construction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The conservative justice is saying, with irony in the fire, that it serves him right for straying from strict construction.
- President Bush and his right-wing supporters say they want "strict construction" of the law by judges.
- But if the Court had adopted a strict construction of the confrontation clause, the little girl would not have been able to tell her story.
- Another factor in the price rise is stricter construction and installation standards to make the buildings better able to withstand strong winds.
- In politics he belonged to the Jeffersonian school of strict construction and states rights.
- He dismissed any strict construction of timekeeping with a wave of the hand.
- Mr. Huckaby said this strict construction of the law was likely to have a chilling effect on the press.
- This applies when the words are so wide that on a strict construction they cover improbable and unlikely events.
- The strict construction of the contract is thus not the conclusive factor.
- "Do you want a strict construction of the word 'eve?' "
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