Sentence examples for discern to from inspiring English sources

This same root yields the verb "discern"—to recognize as distinct or separate and the cognate "discreet"—to show discernment, hence "well-behaved".

Aides searching for signs of distress from Mr. Romney find them difficult to discern, to their amazement and their puzzlement.

It is difficult to discern to what extent Ms. Meier has set the movement, as the three engage in prolonged shoving matches, throwing one another to the floor only to trip and fall themselves, or getting hopelessly and rather violently tangled about in the rope, wielded without mercy by whichever pair happens to be in charge.

There is no real priority set by anybody that I can discern to getting that position filled.

The main difficulty that remains is being able to discern to what extent infrastructure may have affected variations observed in the field, and not the opposite.

The objective is to discern to what extent model performance, expressed by a variety of metrics, can be attributed to endogenously modeled processes or to exogenous model inputs.

It indicates the practice ability to discern reality, to foresee consequences, to know the context.

If the overall structure was hard to discern, moment to moment the music was riveting.

However, the effects were difficult to discern due to limitations of the hardware.

Human reason was required to discern how to act in uncertain cases.

Today, however, "investors have to be more discerning to be rewarded".