Interpreting Sentence Examples

The context is absolutely critical to properly interpreting Bible verses.

This writer undertook the task of interpreting to the Latin world some of the best work of Arabic physicians, and his translation of Avicenna is said to have been made by order of the emperor Frederic II.

Presently this new principle of autocracy was extended to the king's legislative authority also, for, on the 9th of December 1682, all four estates, by virtue of a common declaration, not only confirmed him in the possession -of the legislative powers enjoyed by his predecessors, but even conceded to him the right of interpreting and amending the common law.

And idealism in all its forms would say that man, interpreting through his reason, does rightly, and reaches truth.

The second way of interpreting the antithesis of thought to what is thought of, was taken by a group of thinkers among whom a central and inspiring figure was Schleiermacher.

In view of the confusion of the traditions and the difficulty of interpreting the details sketched above, the recovery of the historical Aaron is a work of peculiar intricacy.

In order that his work might fairly stand beside that of the old Latin writers, Severus ignored the allegorical methods of interpreting sacred history to which the heretics and the orthodox of his.

The methods employed in studying the relation of bacteria to disease are in principle comparatively simple,but considerable experience and great care are necessary in applying them and in interpreting results.

He then attached himself to the Old Lutheran party, interpreting Lutheranism in a broad and liberal spirit and showing some appreciation of rationalism.

The commander of the Mexican Army of the North, Ampudia, immediately summoned him to retire behind the Nueces under the threat of interpreting his advance as an invasion of Mexican territory.

The last of his theological works were Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity (1718), and Tetradymus (1720), a collection of essays on various subjects, in the first of which (Hodegus) he set the example, subsequently followed by Reimarus and the rationalistic school in Germany, of interpreting the Old Testament miracles by the naturalistic method, maintaining, for instance, that the pillar of cloud and the fire of Exodus was a transported signal-fire.

But in interpreting these standards of faith and doctrine, the Church of the Province of South Africa is not bound by decisions other than those of its own Church courts, or such court as the Provincial Synod may recognize as a tribunal of appeal.

In Christianity, on the other hand, we early find that the method of moralists determining right conduct is to a great extent analogous to that of jurisconsults interpreting a code.

He observed, in 1823, dark lines in stellar spectra which Kirchhoff's discovery supplied the means of interpreting.

Formulae for metallic reflection may be obtained from Fresnel's expressions by writing the ratio sin i / sin r equal to a complex quantity, and interpreting the imaginary coefficients in the manner explained above.

For purposes of civil government the term "parish" means a district for, which a separate poor-rate is or can be made, or for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed; and by the Interpretation Act 1889 this definition is to be used in interpreting all statues subsequent to 1866, except where the context is inconsistent therewith.

True, they'd had more of an understanding than an official agreement, but he never failed to deliver, even if he had a reputation for interpreting the terms differently than those who made him the deal.

Deidre's bucket list came to mind, distracting him from interpreting Fate's cryptic comparison.

The application interpreting an initial linkbase arc may choose to limit the number of steps processed in the chain.

The important thing when reading and interpreting the Bible is to understand what type of truth we expect to receive from it.

The ecological fallacy has become a bugbear to frighten people away from interpreting social observations in collective terms.

One of the main keys to interpreting handwriting is the fact that we always write differently from the model taught to us at school.

Clearly, any art of reaching agreement through conversation is going to depend on an art of interpreting interlocutors.

As well as being useful for interpreting the behavior of the seal, these pictures will also be interesting in studying the krill themselves.

And he was speaking on interpreting the Old Testament.

Skill in reading and interpreting electrical schematics, diagrams, product data, and so forth.

He was also a great man for interpreting sacred scripture for the benefit of the less learned.

Toward the end of the month there was a multilingual debate using simultaneous interpreting facilities at Heriot-Watt University.

There is also a list of commonly lost fragments, helpful for interpreting spectra.

And he was speaking on interpreting the Old testament.

Over all geometrical theorems they would be in complete agreement, only interpreting the words in terms of their respective intuitions.

This method of interpreting canonical variates is identical to the manner in which factors are interpreted in factor analysis.

We will all have to become versed in interpreting a new type of scale.

Convinced that opposition to Babylonian rule was suicidal, and interpreting historical events, in the manner of the times, as indications of the temper of the deity, he held that the imminent political destruction of the nation was proof of Yahweh's anger with the people on account of their moral and religious depravity; Jerusalem was hopelessly corrupt and must be destroyed (xxiv.).

Through this unexpected and obscure principle of "dialectic Hegel claimed to fulfil his programme of interpreting everything as manifest necessary truth of ideal relationship. It all must be so and you see it must.

Besides these direct services imposed upon the states, each state is of course practically limited in its legislative and executive action by the power of the Federal judiciary (in the exercise of its function of interpreting the Constitution) to declare invalid laws passed or acts done inconsistent with the Federal Constitution, or with statutes passed by the Federal legislature within the scope of its authority under the Constitution.

Interpreting his father 's death as divine providence, the young Salieri resolved to devote his life to glorying God through his music.

The usual rules for interpreting sexagesimal values in expressions are followed.

Our chemistry homework for the week involves analyzing and interpreting the results of the experiment conducted in class.

Almost all of the English to Portuguese online translators are machine-oriented, which means that a program is interpreting your words into Portuguese.

The grand score is used as the number for interpreting the inventory results.

Although "organic" looks promising on a product label, there's quite a bit of wiggle room for interpreting just what you're buying.

In addition, interpreting dream symbols using words becomes challenging.

Here are some other resources for understanding and interpreting your dreams.

For some, this might mean keeping a dream dictionary and interpreting dreams, or even having a premonition in a dream that comes true.

Books about interpreting dreams are available to help make sense of dreams.

Taking a biblical perspective on your dream experience involves gaining insight into dream symbols, possible meanings, and methods of interpreting dreams.

Metaphors are important elements in this book, and the book features instructions for interpreting dreams.

Interpreting the stories can be as complex as understanding your dreams, and many of the symbols are a matter of perspective.

The possibilities are endless in interpreting dreams, and you have a great opportunity to explore your dreaming experiences on different levels.

Ride failures range from restraints not locking properly to brake systems malfunctioning to computers not properly interpreting sensor signals from trains in motion.

Infants born prematurely have more difficulty integrating and interpreting visual information even when their acuity is normal.

A detailed history of the test subject and a review of psychological, medical, educational, or other relevant records are required to lay the groundwork for interpreting the results of any psychological measurement.

The CAT's creators suggest a series of ten variables to consider when interpreting the results.

A detailed review of psychological, medical, educational, or other relevant history are required to lay the foundation for interpreting the results of any psychological measurement.

After the artwork is created, the patient/artist continues the therapeutic journey by interpreting its meaning under the guidance of a trained therapist.

A detailed clinical and personal history of the child and a review of psychological, medical, educational, or other relevant records are required to lay the groundwork for interpreting the results of any psychological measurement.

Thus, psychologists, educators, and other test administrators are careful to take the stage of childhood into account when interpreting a child's test scores.

Errors in determining the age of the fetus lead to errors when interpreting the test results.

Children with reading disorders have difficulty recognizing and interpreting letters and words (dyslexia).

She may testify in the courtroom about medical issues and must be extremely knowledgeable and skilled at interpreting medical data and patient histories.

Like other origami animal instructions, diagrams for dragons use many of the same symbols to make interpreting the diagram easier for everyone.

Whether his discoveries in the use of vitamin C were mistakes in interpreting data or problems in setting up the study or truly discoveries of great magnitude remains to be seen.

For generations, parents have been tracking the visits of Santa Claus by hearing sleigh bells, spotting a red nose in the sky, or otherwise interpreting signs of the jolly old elf's approach.

Reading and interpreting body language is a skill that everyone should have.

This interview with Toni Coleman, LCSW, will help you understand how reading and interpreting body language can strengthen and enhance your relationships in addition to helping you find that special someone.

This may be what you are interpreting as nobody in my area seems to be interested in a relationship.

Clarify if you are interpreting his behavior correctly.

This spread is simply done by selecting a random card from the tarot deck and interpreting the answer to the query by reading the message within the single card.

Practice reading by drawing one card from the deck each day and interpreting it's message for you.

Some people are said to be truly insightful when it comes to interpreting palms, numbers, natal charts and other areas of the metaphysical arts.

Let each card speak and resonate with you, and don't be afraid to use your intuition when interpreting your spread.

The key to interpreting spoilers of any kind is to recognize that all spoilers should be read with a grain of salt.

Interpreting the language of grants can be difficult.

The Food and Drug Administration offers great insight into reading labels and interpreting the information.

There is also something included for people who enjoy bondage, same sex romance, as well as those who enjoy light romance, and all the stories remain true to the vampire topic while interpreting the way vampirism works different.

She listened, dismayed but also interested in someone interpreting the insanity of her mind in a way she could grasp.

As a classical scholar, his scorn of littlenesses sometimes led him into the neglect of minutiae, but he had the higher merit of interpreting ideas.

Not interpreting this as applying to works printed outside Ulm, he published in 1538 at Augsburg his Guldin Arch (with pagan parallels to Christian sentiments) and at Frankfort his Germaniae clzronicon, with the result that he had to leave Ulm in January 1539.

Unless, therefore, he that has the gift of tongues also possess the gift of interpreting his exclamations, or unless some one present can do so for him, he had not better exercise it in church.

On the 11th of October Italy communicated article 7 of the treaty of Uccialli to the European powers, interpreting it as a valid title to an Italian protectorate over Abyssinia.

In estimating the work of one who stands at the head of the religious and legal institutions of Israel, it is necessary to refrain from interpreting the traditions from a modern legal standpoint or in the light of subsequent ideas and beliefs for which the sources themselves give no authority.

It is obvious that both these investigators had the genius for recognizing and interpreting the value of characters; but their labours do not seem to have met with much encouragement; and a general arrangement of the class laid by Blyth before the Zoological Society at this time 1 does not appear in its publications.

In addition to the Old Testament the Therapeutae had books by the founders of their sect on the allegorical method of interpreting Scripture.

The two systems were nothing more as yet than two different ways of interpreting a phrase of Porphyry, and they remained unnoticed in the for nearly two centuries not so much for its dialectics S' and philosophy as for its humanistic culture.

The graphic method, therefore, does not give any direct assistance towards the conception of negative numbers as operators, though it is useful for interpreting negative quantities as results.

He has, indeed, described in graphic terms the greatest of the more superficial changes he underwent; how he had " carried into logical and ethical problems the maxims and postulates of physical knowledge," and had moved within the narrow lines drawn by the philosophical instructions of the class-room " interpreting human phenomena by the analogy of external nature "; how he served in willing captivity " the ` empirical ' and ` necessarian ' mode of thought," even though " shocked " by the dogmatism and acrid humours " of certain distinguished representatives "; 1 and how in a period of " second education " at Berlin, " mainly under the admirable guidance of Professor Trendelenburg," he experienced " a new intellectual birth" which " was essentially the gift of fresh conceptions, the unsealing of hidden openings of self-consciousness, with unmeasured corridors and sacred halls behind; and, once gained, was more or less available throughout the history of philosophy, and lifted the darkness from the pages of Kant and even Hegel."

Jerome's mind was evidently full of anxiety about his translation of the Old Testament, for we find him in his letters recording the conversations he had with learned men about disputed readings and doubtful renderings; the blind Didymus of Alexandria, whom he heard interpreting Hosea, appears to have been most useful.

It does not mean that there is anywhere a mere fact which is not also an interpretation nor an interpreting mind whose ideas have no hold upon fact.

But philosophical critics of his own and a later day are not hereby absolved from a certain perversity in interpreting these doctrines in a sense precisely opposite to that in which they were intended.

In interpreting its environment first as a world of things that seem to stand in a relation of exclusion to one another and to itself, then as a natural system governed by rigid mechanical necessity, the mind can yet feel that in its very opposition the world is akin to it, bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh.

It is convenient to give this calculation before proceeding to describe the experimental determination of the velocity in air, in other gases and in water, since the calculation serves to some extent as a guide in conducting and interpreting the observations.

In this work he for the first time systematized an old Oriental (perhaps Phoenician) method of interpreting the popular myths, asserting that the gods who formed the chief objects of popular worship had been originally heroes and conquerors, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.

The chief of these was the gift of teaching, that is, of understanding and interpreting to others the will and truth of God.

In Slovakia, Jo z a eprka and his school have devoted themselves to interpreting peasant life.

In this he not only endeavoured to obviate some objections which were taken to the former part, but continued his inquiries into the doctrines of the Christian religion, religious toleration and the proper rules for interpreting the Scriptures.

In interpreting the phenomena observed in a spectroscope, it is necessary to remember that the instrument, as pointed out by Lord Rayleigh, is itself a producer of homogeneity within the limits defined by its resolving power.

Their presence indicates the characteristic difference between the spark and the arc. The name is due to Sir Norman Lockyer, who has studied these lines and drawn the attention of astronomers to their importance in interpreting stellar spectra.

Fichte thus transformed the transcendental idealism of Kant by identifying the thing with the object, and by interpreting noumenon, not in Kant's sense of something which speculative reason conceives and practical reason postulates to exist in accordance with the idea, but in the new meaning of a thought, a product of reason.

It had also the duty of considering applications for the concession of indulgences and of interpreting the rules with regard to them.

Thus in interpreting complicated freezing point curves, we must look for chemical compounds where the curve shows a maximum, and for a eutectic or cryohydrate where two curves meet at a minimum point.

The procedure in scientific excavation is directed to collecting and interpreting all the information that can he obtained from the excavation as to the history and nature of the site explored, be it town, temple, house, cemetery or individual grave, wasting no evidence that results from it touching the endless problems which scientific archaeology affordswhether in regard to arts and crafts, manners and customs, language, history or beliefs.

Revillout addressed himself with success to the task of interpreting the legal documents of demotic which had been almost entirely neglected for thirty years.

Under the guidance of Judges John Jay, Marshall, and Joseph Story, the judiciary from 1790 to 1835 had followed the Federalist loose construction methods of interpreting the constitution.

And instead of interpreting the other articles in harmony done; but its practical value was trifling.

The astral theology of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion, while thus bearing the ear-marks of a system devised by the priests, succeeded in assimilating the beliefs which represented the earlier attempts to systematize the more popular aspects of the religion, and in this way a unification of diverse elements was secured that led to interpreting the contents and the form of the religion in terms of the astral-theological system.

In Persia any person capable of reading the Koran and interpreting its laws may act as a priest (mullali), and as soon as such a priest becomes known for his just interpretation of the s/1ar and his superior knowledge of the traditions and articles of faith, he becomes a muftahid, literally meaning one who strives (to acquire knowledge), and is a chief priest.

Discretion must therefore be exercised in interpreting negative results in the lower animals.

These letters, written with the utmost freedom and fullness to the one whose affection and intellect he trusted more than any, are of the greatest value for interpreting the writer.

Moral insight, in the view of the most thoughtful Jews of the age immediately preceding Christianity, was conceived as knowledge of a divine code, emanating from an authority external to human reason which had only the function of interpreting and applying its rules.

According to Hegel, the essence of the universe is a process of thought from the abstract to the concrete; and a right understanding of this process gives the key for interpreting the evolution in time of European philosophy.

In all probability Zeno did not observe that in his controversial defence of Eleaticism he was interpreting Parmenides's teaching anew.

A thin halo seen above the new moon was pictured as a cap, and the association between this and the symbol of royalty, which was a conical-shaped cap, led to interpreting the phenomenon as an indication that the ruler would have a successful reign.

This clause would seem to leave the state government with no powers not expressly granted, and to make the rule for interpreting the Nebraska constitution similar to that for interpreting the Federal constitution; but in their practice the Nebraska courts have been little influenced by it, and it is chiefly of historical interest.2 The administration of justice is vested in a supreme court, 15 district courts, county courts and courts of justices of the peace and police magistrates.

Or early climatologists who made their own daily observations of precipitation and barometric pressure, interpreting as well as collecting readings.

She responds quickly to the gentle pressure of affection, the pat of approval, the jerk of impatience, the firm motion of command, and to the many other variations of the almost infinite language of the feelings; and she has become so expert in interpreting this unconscious language of the emotions that she is often able to divine our very thoughts.