literal wording

The crucial point in religion is not the literal wording of the religious books, but rather how they are interpreted and by whom.

For the Petitioner to rely on the literal wording of treaties signed at the turn of the 20th century misses the point entirely.

As there is always the danger that a particular interpretation may be the equivalent of making law, some judges prefer to adhere to the law's literal wording.

Such an application also conflicted with the literal wording of the law, which defined perjury as willfully stating under oath any material matter which the witness does not believe to be true.

Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording.

The appeal on behalf of the teen-ager, Robert A. Viktora, argues that the ordinance is unconstitutional because "its literal wording punishes and may deter a significant range of protected expression."

He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency, but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms:

This was ruled unconstitutional at McLean v. Arkansas in January 1982 as the creationists' methods were not scientific but took the literal wording of the Book of Genesis and attempted to find scientific support for it.

The court found that creation science does not culminate in conclusions formed from scientific inquiry, but instead begins with the conclusion, one taken from a literal wording of the Book of Genesis, and seeks only scientific evidence to support it.

"Conway knew why this was so," Cha Thrat went on, "because it also knew as much about Gogleskan preg-nancies as Khone itself did, so it might be that the literal wording of the signal released Conway from the promise.

The creationists' methods do not take data, weigh it against the opposing scientific data, and thereafter reach the conclusions stated in [the Act] Instead, they take the literal wording of the Book of Genesis and attempt to find scientific support for it.

Any use of material or color or construction or other contrivance that gives the appearance of non-compliance with these dress rules, even though there is no breach of the literal wording of these rules, will be a breach of these rules if so determined by the Chairman of Adjudicators.