Sentence examples for discern the future from inspiring English sources
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.
Harder still would be designing an immigration system to discern the future entrepreneurial potential of 6-year-olds.
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).
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.
To guess, based on the past, is to preclude discerning change in the future.
There are various forms of intelligence: There is the more rational variety that is necessitated for intellectually demanding tasks like playing chess, solving complex problems and making discerning choices about the future.
"He was definitely a forward thinker, one of the few guys I know in the technology business who had the ability to sift through the tea leaves of the present and discern the direction of future events," said Larry Scott, a former colleague at Cambridge Technology Partners.
One doesn't have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.
