Sentences with phrase «which in plain words»

Not exact matches

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

David Bentley Hart's reflections on the «ingenious ways» in which Christians over the centuries have sought to get around «the plain meaning of Christ's words» about wealth as an impediment to entering the kingdom of God brought to mind the old story of Angus the Scotsman.

Only confusion will result if we do not make plain which of these meanings will be given to this word in the following discussion.

In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believIn the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believin a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believin a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.

In this regard, the parable is a key to the ways in which we ought to be communicating «the Gospel» story today, for the parable provides a necessary corrective to the increasingly verbal, stultifying, and just plain boring Protestant theology that has developed during the last two centuries — «a battle over words and what they mean.&raquIn this regard, the parable is a key to the ways in which we ought to be communicating «the Gospel» story today, for the parable provides a necessary corrective to the increasingly verbal, stultifying, and just plain boring Protestant theology that has developed during the last two centuries — «a battle over words and what they mean.&raquin which we ought to be communicating «the Gospel» story today, for the parable provides a necessary corrective to the increasingly verbal, stultifying, and just plain boring Protestant theology that has developed during the last two centuries — «a battle over words and what they mean.»

Third, Paul's wording makes it plain that he understands homosexual activity as that indulged in by heterosexuals, hence that which is contrary to their own sexual orientation.

The fall - off in support is to be found among Republicans (from 57 % to 43 %), while Democratic opinion is essentially the same no matter which way the question is worded, a sure sign that partisan politics is playing a key role — especially since Republicans remain as supportive as Democrats if asked the plain vanilla version of the question.

Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is «the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.»

These are incredibly charged works, which he stopped making in the 1980s — the earliest, «Raw War» dating to 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War... I'm interested in the bareness of these words and in the way they enunciate a plain brutality and yet resonate with all kinds of emotions.

I have put the word «or» when necessary to see how the statute fits together (which could be omitted in a block quotation showing omissions with»...») in italics and have left the remainder of the relevant statutes in plain text to allow a reader to confirm that the reading I am giving to the statute is correct.

«For those of us who take seriously the Constitution — and the plain meaning of the words of the English language, in which the Constitution is written — these petty squabbles about what the phrase «shall not be suspended» means are quite remarkable.»

For example, Feldman analyzed the quality of Supreme Court merits briefs using a composite of features such as passivity, wordiness, sentence length, and tone.63 He found that brief readability was positively associated with the percentage of brief language adopted in the opinion and that the association was highly significant.64 Similarly, Collins et al. analyzed the «cognitive clarity» and plain language of Supreme Court amicus briefs.65 They measured cognitive clarity using the dictionary - based Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (LIWC), which relied on an index of categories that relate to cognitive clarity such as «causation, insight, discrepancy, inhibition, tentativeness, certainty, exclusiveness, inclusiveness, negations, and the percentage of words containing six or more letters.»

This principle is supported by other statutory interpretation rules such as the plain meaning rule of statutory interpretation, which advises us that the words used in the Criminal Code mean what they ordinarily mean.

Electronic resumes should be created in the most readable file for most [Internet - recruiting] systems, which is plain text or Microsoft Word.