Sentence examples for discern first from inspiring English sources

Historical-Critical Approach - People who use this approach are interested in trying to discern first what the meaning of a particular text or story was in its own day and time.

As it is not possible to discern first versus second LEA in a claims database, proportions by type of amputation were used to differentiate between first and second amputation inpatient costs.

One discerns first a retreat from the ugly world into a species of Neoclassicism.

"Whether Ötzi suffered from stomach problems cannot be said with any degree of certainty because his stomach tissue has not survived and it is in this tissue that such diseases can be discerned first.

Watches capable of discerning hundredths of a second were in regular use in the Olympics by 1948.

The exhibition is a tour of the mind of an astute and discerning eighteenth-century connoisseur, which takes us from the intimacy of the Common Parlour, a dining room in all but name, through to the great Saloon, the climax of this grand tour.

There seemed to be some sort of wing-and-pitcher deal going on, so it was hard to discern at first who was just starting the weekend early and who was here to watch the first Republican presidential debate unfold across the bar's seven flat screens, like a UFC fight gone terribly wrong.

In 2008, public health officials began to discern the first signs of opioid abuse.

An occasional problem is that physical points are not underlined clearly enough: it is hard to discern at first that the parents come back from each "death" wearing scars and bloodstains.

In the angry clamoring of Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and of Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds in the north, many Iraqis, foreign diplomats and allied military officers say they discern the first smoke of broad communal strife.

Click it once and you get a barebones watch face that's a bit difficult to discern at first.