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Sofiane Ben Tounes, the president of General Electric in Northeast Africa, said his company has been in Tunisia for decades but now sees a real opportunity for change with the newly elected government — a coalition of liberal, nationalist and Islamist parties that holds a large majority in parliament. (dailymail.co.uk)

The 1945 deal effectively surrendered the right, regularly exercised 40 years before, against the Liberal governments of Campbell Bannerman and Asquith, to pole-axe any bill peers didn't fancy, at the first opportunity. But, crucially, it still left scope for bills to be amended, even gutted, later in the legislative process - particularly at report stage consideration. (BBC News)

NARROW CONSTRUCTION. A strict construction as opposed to liberal. Limited to plain meaning or narrow in aplication. (TheLaw.com Law Dictionary)

liberal construction. Interpretation of a document not only on the basis of actual words and phrases used in it but (unlike in literal construction) by also taking its deemed or stated purpose into account. (BusinessDictionary)