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There are many things which, produced apart from their context, may seem open to a slanderous inter-pretation.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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There are many things which, produced apart from their context, may seem open to a slanderous inter-pretation.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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An artwork involves more than one voice as, indeed, the word inter-pretation implies.
Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007
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Q: During a multiparty debate on 10 August this year, CA members agreed to negotiate around two documents, one of which was an inter - pretation of the 34 Constitutional Principles.
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The final determination was Cryptogram: the inter - pretation of a set of symbols that represented a quo - tation in English.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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" "Everything they said about the future of your people is quite correct, given the accuracy of their inter-pretation of the discoveries they made.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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In view of all this it is perhaps not surprising to find that the study of language has practically everywhere originated from problems concerning the inter - pretation of an old literary or religious tradition in the language of the dominant culture, rather than from problems arising out of a confrontation with foreign peoples.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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Coupled with their inter - pretation of Darwinian evolution, it seemed to provide the very key — the ultimate biological justification — for radical change.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PETER VORZIMMER 1968
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Page 29, Volume 3 opinions (responsa) on matters of procedure and inter - pretation.
LEGAL PRECEDENT T. B. SMITH 1968
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But the inter - pretation of the oracles of nature demands an infinite patience, and the pages of the great book of nature are to be read with humility and reverence.
BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968
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