Texts recount that Celtic religious leaders, the druids, were prophets who killed humans in order to discern the future as revealed by the dying victims' movements.
Titled "The Plant," the novel tells the story of a predatory vine that terrorizes a small paperback house, and, as book publishers strain to discern the future of digital publishing, it spooked them in more ways than one.
First come the dire prophecies of the electronic weather seers, using Delphic maps of the heavens to discern the future, with each oracle forecasting more snow, higher winds and more chariots spinning toward certain death on icy roads, each plague a reminder of divine wrath.
It's too early to discern his future plans, but this could in fact be it for him: He's an accountant who has worked in the oil patch for years, first in Midland and now in Giddings, and this might satisfy his public ambitions.
Harder still would be designing an immigration system to discern the future entrepreneurial potential of 6-year-olds.
We meet as a body triennially in General Convention to discern our future on exactly this kind of issue.
Put the two parts together and you can discern the future direction of bipartisan employment policy and fundamental tax reform: a revenue-neutral tax shift that moves the tax burden off employing people and onto consuming things.
(The title sounds strange, but many big companies now have executives focused on discerning the future).
Another volunteer, Glenn Moores, had been an I.T. contractor when, at the age of twenty-seven, he discerned a future of mortgage payments and ennui.
Using a systematisation that considers environmental effects of information and communication technologies as direct, indirect and structural, this article discerns the future socio-environmental scenarios indicative of each value model.
