Sentence examples for discern order from inspiring English sources

He made extensive use of aerial surveys of tornado tracks and took innumerable aerial photographs, displaying an uncanny ability to discern order and pattern in jumbles of debris and downed trees.

We had stared down at a what might appear to the layman to be an arbitrary arrangement of numbers and had discerned order from the chaos.

It is relatively easy to discern some order in the above embarrassment of explanations.

"I don't think the average American, with any level of education, would discern any order in these".

From the first poem – "World into Fragments" – to the final one – "Fragments into World" – there appears to be an arc of design, a wish to discern an ordering amid chaos.

The book names itself as a "glasse," a mirror, in which the entire cosmos can be discerned and ordered, with the navigator himself at its stable center.

Even observers would have found it hard to discern a precise order of events in the confusion.

We could not discern in what order multiple locations occurred (within the 30 minute interval).

This assumption is biologically unrealistic, but there is seldom enough kinetic information to be able to discern the precise order and duration of state transitions.

Although it is impossible to discern the exact order of events without detailed mapping of other Phasianid genomes, it is feasible to explain the various changes by a series of 4 consecutive inversions, each of which had different end points, leading to 8 genome segments whose orientations now differ between the two orthologues (Additional file 5: Figure S1).

He read widely in philosophy and history and was especially interested in those thinkers who were beginning to discern and trace some order in the history of human society.