Sentence examples for discern an effort from inspiring English sources

Turkey is now anxious to discuss water with the American-backed government of Iraq; cynics discern an effort to lock in some deals favourable to the Turks while the Iraqis may be amenable.What about Israel, a country that (in matters aquatic, as in much else) views itself as eternally vulnerable while its neighbours often regard it as a hard-nosed bully?

Jonathan Broder, foreign-affairs editor of the Congressional Quarterly, discerns an effort by Republicans to woo Jewish voters, long more supportive of Democrats, by outbidding the administration over Israel.

He combined a remarkable narrative artistry with an effort to discern the causes of customs and events.

There's an effort to discern the truth of the matter, because all whitenesses are not equal".

So the government applies seasonal adjustment factors in an effort to discern the real trend of the economy apart from seasonal fluctuations.

In March a team of researchers from the University of Oxford solicited the help of citizen scientists in running climate simulations on their personal computers in an effort to discern links between climate change and the 2013 14 record precipitation in the United Kingdom.

His project was an effort to discern if a chimpanzee could learn sign language and if that learning could proceed beyond the mimicry of specific gestures into the creation of grammatical sentences.

Equipped with a special digital "dark energy camera" built at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, the telescope will embark this year on a survey of some 300 million galaxies in an effort to discern the effect of dark energy on the evolution of the universe.

The research, published online on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, grew out of an effort to discern the coat colors of ancient horses to help figure out when the animals were domesticated, a pivotal moment in the development of human societies.

These three conditions fit fairly well for Argentina and point to what other economies we should look at in an effort to discern protectionist traps.

A review of recent experimental and theoretical work on tin whiskering, and on the behavior of hydrogen dissolved into metals has been performed, in an effort to discern whether dissolved hydrogen merits renewed consideration.