Sentence examples for discern against from inspiring English sources

In the event of a subtle nick, the white mark may be impossible to discern against the background.In such cases, a different approach may be needed to dispel doubts.

At metaphase, these signals were often difficult to discern against the fluorescence on the K-fibers of the spindle.

Using the antibody with the highest relative reactivity for denatured SOD1 (the Calbiochem antibody) (Figure 2B), granular inclusions could sometimes be discerned against the background staining of cytosolic SOD1 (Figure 1F).

Although this impulse can be discerned in "Against the Day," it's blunted and stillborn.

The musicians showed far less age-related decline in certain aspects of hearing, among them the ability to discern frequencies, hear conversation against a noisy background and hear tones as they get quieter.

At an oversight hearing, council members will try to discern why top officials decided against such a measure, which would have given the city greater power to clear roads of parked cars and make way for plows.

Another file chronicles the struggle by Cardinal Mahony and his advisers to discern the truth about accusations against Monsignor Loomis, a priest who himself helped advise the cardinal on abuse cases against priests in his role as vicar for clergy in the archdiocesan chancery.

Social scientists attempted to discern why they voted — sometimes against their own self-interests and often in the face of facts that should have sent them running to the hills — for a guy who couldn't be more unlike them.

Twists aside, this study illustrates the usual epidemiological research challenge of discerning a signal against considerable background noise.

And how a machine or an errant finger would discern between supportive books about homosexuality and books against homosexuality is a head-scratcher.

The men who catalogued those dangers — who could discern a line of Revelation in a hailstorm — protected against them, spiritually and politically.