Sentence examples for discern the purpose from inspiring English sources

It was not possible to confirm the report, nor to discern the purpose of the raid.

If the disruptions hunters cause are apparent, it is less easy to discern the purpose they serve, as they prowl the woods enacting ancient narratives of stalker and prey.

But most Northerners and Southerners struggled throughout the Civil War to discern the purposes and intentions of their God.

Others asked to be bombarded from the air, so that no trace of them would remain.... Nobody could distinguish truth from fiction in these reports, just as it was impossible to discern what the purpose of the conspirators, or even the leader himself, might be.

For while it is possible to discern the objective "purpose" of a statute (i.e., the public good at which its provisions appear to be directed), or even the formal motivation for a statute where that is explicitly set forth (as it was, to no avail, here), discerning the subjective motivation of those enacting the statute is, to be honest, almost always an impossible task.

As Carl Yung once wrote, "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being".

The question of discerning the real purpose behind a particular law enforcement technique is a difficult one under the court's precedents.

The report said investigators were "unable to discern the precise business purpose" for the repurchase plan and noted that these offers carried "virtually no risk" and were "poorly suited" to align directors' and shareholders' interests.

This study allows to discern the significant design variables.

It should be noted that, without inspection of the individual documents or "prior knowledge", it is difficult to discriminate within database records per se between a bona fide drug target, a protein assay included for the purpose of discerning compound selectivity, off-target effects or modulating multiple targets with the same compound (i.e. polypharmacology) [21].

But what really is the purpose of discerning what's fake and what's authentic in a show about professionals who are inauthentic for a living?