Word: interpretative
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...council passed to a second reading a bill, which would instruct the city's Rent Control Board to interpret an ordinance passed last year as requiring developers to obtain the permits...
Although the boycott will guarantee a deterioration of our relations with the Eastern bloc, we have no assurance that the Soviets will interpret it as a unified Western reaction because our allies have expressed extreme reluctance to stand...
...leaders of these Third World countries can now only interpret American nuclear non-proliferation policy as another attempt to preserve the existing imbalance in world power and to deny them the benefits that the industrialized nations have long profited from. Success in the attempt to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons throughout a politically unstable Third World depends upon U.S. recognition that these countries are no longer second-class world citizens. As such, the United States must sacrifice a bit before it can expect developing nations to do the same...
...personal routines, so in politics: to Khomeini the only just state is one ruled by Islamic theologians, who alone can be trusted to interpret God's commands correctly. There is no separation of church and state, or division between sacred and secular, in Islamic teaching. The Ayatullah, however, carries his theocratic vision much farther than most other Muslim scholars by insisting on the clergy's duty, not just to pass moral judgment on the acts of government, but to rule the state directly?a concept enshrined in the constitution that Iran adopted last month. The ideal Islamic government, Khomeini...
...there has evolved a similarly firm nationwide determination-that the hostages must be freed. Some Administration officials see not just deadlock and frustration in the events of the past weeks, but an opportunity too. They interpret the national mood as marking the end of the Viet Nam decade of doubt about America and its role. They forecast a substantial increase in the U.S. armed forces and a willingness to make it plain that these forces would be used to defend America's just interests...