Sentence examples for discerned only from inspiring English sources

Sometimes a person's race can be discerned only by studying the tax assessed on nonwhites.

The innate tragic grandeur and gritty, stinging humor of this story of racial exploitation and musicians at loggerheads can be discerned only in fitful flashes.

The paradox is that the vanishing point is discerned only as an obscure point, yet something is happening in that obscurity.

Giuliani later said that his father's earlier life was kept secret from him, and that he had discerned only faint hints of it.

In 2008, Lamont-Doherty reported an "alignment" of earthquakes between Peekskill, N.Y., and Stamford, Conn., that were discerned only after the installation of seismographs in 1973.

In some instances the cells of a tumour are normal in appearance; the differences between them and normal body cells can be discerned only with some difficulty.

Between "Othello" and "Otello," Sir Peter discerns only two real differences: the words and the music.

One woman with Stargardt's went from being able to discern only hand movements to counting fingers.

A translator for the prosecution could discern only fragments of the muffled tape, a mixture of Russian and the Bukhari dialect.

"Try as we did, we were able to discern only two clear arguments in favour of GoCo, neither of which is convincing and one of which may be undemocratic," a research paper concluded last year.

From 2010, when Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, until the end of 2012, however, the actuaries could discern only a meager impact from the law on national health care spending, said Anne Martin, an economist at the Office of the Actuary, during the press briefing.