1.   That phrase had been interpreted expansively by the Democrats when they controlled the agency to justify imposing conditions on several large corporate mergers.

2.   The Corrections Commission liberally interpreted the phrase to mean prisons as well.

3.   The suggestion sparked prolonged debate over whether the public might interpret the phrase as a partisan denunciation of the political left.

4.   In the Thai language, the constitutional phrase could be interpreted more than one way.

5.   That phrase could be interpreted to set such controls on the inspections as to render them useless.

6.   U.S. officials said they feared the phrase could be interpreted that NATO intended to hit the embassy.