Word: interpretational
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...wider implications of these possible outcomes. And although he urges his compatriots to support the fresh deployment, he understands their need to debate the issue. "You can say that the alliance is evolving and developing and learning lessons at the same time," he says. Insurgents fighting isaf troops might interpret the Dutch debate as a symptom of Nato's weakness. In fact it's a messy demonstration of its strength...
...hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with Care from the mouths of the Traveling Wilburys and turns it into a female anthem...
...Until the 1980s, there had been just over a dozen in two centuries. The President's basic legislative weapon, after all, is the veto power given him by the founders. He can use the power as leverage to affect legislation or kill it. But he cannot legislate himself or interpret the law counter to Congress's intent. Signing statements were therefore relatively rare instances of presidential nuance or push-back. In eight years, Ronald Reagan used signing statements to challenge 71 legislative provisions, and Bill Clinton...
...He’s one of the few professors at Harvard that is good at what he does,” says Dean. “He’s a fascinating lecturer, and the class really taught me to read and interpret, and more importantly, how to think...
...fundamental principle of statutory interpretation "is that a statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, to the end that the purpose of its framers may be effectuated." Hanlon v. Rollins, 286 Mass. 444, 447 (1934). See Sullivan v. Brookline, 435 Mass. 353, 360 (2001). Courts must ascertain the intent of a statute from all its parts and from...