Sentence examples for discern and understand from inspiring English sources

As I was sitting there trying to discern and understand what this branch manager was saying to me, and he was struggling with his English, the coin sort of dropped that this guy really knows what he's talking about.

Obviously, additional study is necessary in order to more accurately discern and understand these patterns.

And that supposition in turn is supported by the evidence of actual experience (both historical and contemporary), which is in any case the only way to discern and understand the law's requirements.

Once you have heard everything they wanted to say, you have more information with which you can discern and understand more accurately.

The Latest Trends:Based on the amount of time teachers spend with kids, they're often able to discern and understand the hottest and latest trends in high-tech hardware, software and usage habits.

But I totally get that now that he's an adult, 24 this month, he can look at both of his parents with a more discerning eye and understand that perhaps these two people didn't really belong together.

He has been able to discern the moment and understand what is the most important role he can play".

Now we ask more discerning questions of all our contacts within the export process and understand the importance of visiting the countries we export to.

Powell had early on discerned his brother's basketball potential, and understood that competition would be much stronger in Philadelphia, a basketball hotbed, than in Connecticut.

For example, Cloos et al. (2010) consider economic and financial circumstances components of active ageing, but they do not explicitly discern what they understand by 'components' and how they relate to ageing actively.

For example, Teacher C mentioned that, in the beginning, CAT-1 seemed difficult to the students since they were not familiar with answering this type of question, and sometimes asking students questions in a different way was helpful to discern whether they understand the essence of a concept or a procedure.