Sentence examples similar to discern a purpose from inspiring English sources
If a country can't discern a moral purpose in its foreign policy, it will lack resilience.
His efforts to discern a higher purpose reflect, he hints, more an intuition or conjecture than a real argument.
By contrast, chaos narratives appear to be a disjointed series of events within which neither the narrator who is living within the story, nor the listener, can discern a clear purpose or direction.
By the end of The Art of the Deal Trump has discerned he, too, has a purpose.
Most of these are official baddies – programmed as such – but one of them (played by a cadaverous Ed Harris) has discerned a deeper, darker purpose to the park than simply letting the rich have their wild-west fun, and he's gone rogue.
"When both courts below are unable to discern an arguably valid secular purpose, this Court normally should hesitate to find one". Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. at 66 (POWELL, J., concurring).
It was not possible to confirm the report, nor to discern the purpose of the raid.
If the disruptions hunters cause are apparent, it is less easy to discern the purpose they serve, as they prowl the woods enacting ancient narratives of stalker and prey.
