misconstruction

How To Use misconstruction In A Sentence

• Merchants that accept debit cards "are substantially harmed" by the Fed's "misconstruction" of the Dodd-Frank law's provision limiting debit card fees, the plaintiffs said in the lawsuit. Retailers Sue Fed Over Debit-Card Fee Rule
• He had written his wife at the same time, leaving her free to remain at Fürstenstein, or to join him at once and go with him to her old home to see her brother again; now, after two weeks, if she chose to leave, no "misconstruction" could be placed upon her departure. The Northern Light
• Yet any implication of presidential abdication of the policy formulation role in this sphere is a misconstruction.
• But this is largely a misconstruction of the whole issue. Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
• In this instance, errors tend to entrench “bad law,” where “bad law” amount to deliberate misconstruction of binding precedent. The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
• This crude misconstruction of freedom lies at the heart of his party's unreadiness for government. Times, Sunday Times
• That, in my judgment, is wrong, and is a clear error of law because it involves a misconstruction of the policy.
• No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. Middlemarch
• Barton apologizes for 'misconstruction' of BP apology Boehner, Cantor and Pence say Barton was wrong
• Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data. Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement