Sentences with phrase «reasonable interpretations»

Ambiguities in contracts giving rise to two reasonable interpretations, one providing and the other denying coverage, are read contra proferentem and in favor of the insured.

According to the Supreme Court, when faced with two competing reasonable interpretations of an administrative body's «home statute», the administrator — in this case, the BCSC — with the benefit of its expertise, is entitled to choose between those interpretations and «courts must respect that choice».

[26] The obligation of the administrative delegate is to apply the Dreidger template so as to determine whether the statutory provision is open to two or more reasonable interpretations (Dunsmuir's range of reasonable outcomes).

The Clean Power Plan falls well within the bounds of an Administrator's authority to embrace reasonable interpretations of broadly worded statutory language to address unforeseen problems without the need to resort to congressional amendment of current law.

The most reasonable interpretations of what happened (in my view that the data was intentionally destroyed.

And so although it may not be possible to say precisely what equity requires of nations in advance, strong arguments can be made that some national commitments fail to satisfy reasonable interpretations of what equity requires.

What you do is take reasonable interpretations and remarks based upon solid science and the math you do use is used correctly.

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

«One reasonable interpretation is that other factors matter more than RTW in determining the size of the manufacturing industry in a state,» he wrote.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington ruled in favor of the Fed in 2014, saying the agency had made a «reasonable interpretation» of the law.

The most reasonable interpretation of that statement, maybe the only reasonable interpretation, is that the Rev. Wright represents «the black community.

Again, it doesn't matter what I think the answer is, but it seems that a reasonable interpretation might hold those sections as being either hopeful wishes, as opposed to exiting feelings, or in some cases descriptions by men not by God and therefore not entirely accurate.

These last ideas are not necessitated by Whitehead's doctrine, but they seem to be a reasonable interpretation.

Where the rubber hits the road for me is when LBGT Christians are barred from ministry, even when they are being faithful to their reasonable interpretation of Scripture and what they believe is God's leading in their lives.

It would be more persuasive if you were to focus on the ones that are actually, beyond reasonable interpretation, contradictions.

Might there not be an interpretation — a reasonable interpretation — in terms of which the two Platonic theisms coalesce as complementary into one?

Seems like a more reasonable interpretation.

There is one reasonable interpretation of the scriptures, which is simply that they are complete and utter hogwash.

If you have some patience and an open mind, you may get an answer one day that's based in observable fact and reasonable interpretation, rather than one that's based in 2000 year old mysticism.

It is a reasonable interpretation of the Home Office's actions and the reasons it has given for them.

But a reasonable interpretation is that even when his candidacy campaign will turn out to be unsuccessful, he has shown that there is a significant voter - potential for social - democratic ideas in US politics.

In practice, getting everybody to understand English is already a massive undertaking and the only reasonable interpretation of what a «common language» might look like in my view.

I don't see any reasonable interpretation of, (or indeed, context for) the quotes from that video that can make one conclude otherwise.

The only reasonable interpretation is that this background is radiation left over from an early hot and dense state.

«We've come up with a reasonable interpretation that explains everything in the video as being a pileated woodpecker,» says Sibley.

That's a smart, perfectly reasonable interpretation; but I think it stops short of suggesting why anyone other than an obsessive cinephile should care about this movie.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

A more reasonable interpretation is that reforms haven't worked because on average they have done little to develop «rich content knowledge within and across grades.»

Can anyone comment on whether this is a reasonable interpretation of the meaning of «alimony,» and / or explain how the IRS might view it if the alimony - paying spouse submitted a tax return as «Married Filing Singly» reporting the alimony paid as a deduction from taxable income?

You want to work with an insurance provider who you know will be there to pay claims when they arise, and a company that will have a reasonable interpretation of the policy in that event.

My statement was completely correct — By any reasonable interpretation Hansen did imply that most of the warming in the Arctic is due to soot.

can see no other reasonable interpretation of these statements than that the scientists believe their experiments show we're in much more trouble over global warming than previously thought

[Response: Pre-industrial is generally defined in these contexts as ~ 1850 temperatures, though mean 19th Century would be another reasonable interpretation.

The run - up in climate science funding is rather modest compared to other areas of science funding, and a more reasonable interpretation of the funding picture isn't that climate scientists are trying to act alarmed in order to run up their funding, but rather that they (we) are trying to run up funding because they actually are alarmed and feel that the subject needs to be understood better.

«Â Finally, Sotomayor also determined that, at a minimum, EPA's determination that the CWA provision at issue applies to existing and new facilities was a reasonable interpretation of the statute.

Since a primary driver of the Earth's climate from year to year is the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) acts on time scales on the order of 2 - 7 years, and the fact that the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere hurricane season occurs from October — March, a reasonable interpretation of global hurricane activity requires a better metric than simply calendar year totals.

That is the most reasonable interpretation (and would also be consistent with corporate America practice, including, yes, non-profit board service).

So, he's probably almost always correct when he claims that what he's presented is factually correct and he may well present it honestly, if not as clearly as some might like, but what some will take from what he says is not necessarily what most would regard as a reasonable interpretation of the current situation.

One is Heartland president Joseph Bast's «reasonable interpretation» of conclusions he'll never accept, and the rest comes from a retired TV weatherman named Anthony Watts (who's not a climate scientist), who runs the climate denier blog WattsUpWithThat.

As we said in an earlier example of this, the movie «The Day After Tomorrow» portrayed rapid climate change impacts far faster than any reasonable interpretation of the peer - reviewed science would justify.

Interpreting it as «human additions from now» is very obviously not a reasonable interpretation of the sentence, since then it would have to be shifting the natural greenhouse effect plus whatever shift we've alread produced.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

And your considered and measured refutation of Max's entirely reasonable interpretation is what exactly?

(I may be wrong, but after several years of these same questions being dodged by those who hold these beliefs and promote carbon pricing, it seems to be a reasonable interpretation).

So, based on these peer reviewed and generally accepted numbers, 20th century sea levels rose at a 25 % slower rate in the second half of the century than the first which, on any reasonable interpretation, contradicts the notion that global temperature increases during the last 50 years contributed to any sea level rise!»

The only reasonable interpretation of this statement is that you are talking about the solar wind and its effect on the thermosphere.

A reasonable interpretation of this result is that whatever urban influence exists on temperature observations at the Observatory Hill site (which is in a part of Sydney that was heavily built up) was already fully developed by 1910.

The reasonable interpretation of the reality of the situation is that there is a negative feedback loop involved with increased energy at the surface.

When is an interpretation allowable as one that a reasonable and impartial observer could arrive at and when is it to be precluded as either being not a reasonable interpretation or as being incorrect or as being one not favored by most of the audience.

However, I still think that the most reasonable interpretation of all the evidence is that reality (at least as far as transient global mean temp change is concerned) is somewhere around the lower end of the model range.