So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one from descriptionistic attitude.

I am sorry for your husband and children, but I have to give you the boot.

I repeat that he was never a subtle schemer— sitting behind the screen and pulling his wires— which his political and party enemies discovered him to be as soon as he began to get in the way of the machine and obstruct the march of the self-elect.

But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.