Sentence examples for discernible gain from inspiring English sources

Those smiles are now grimaces over a stunt that appears to carry huge political costs for no discernible gain.

But it is not yet clear that Palestinian society – which paid a huge price in the last intifada, for little discernible gain – is united in a desire for another prolonged period of unrest.

Car sales will see a discernible gain from 2009′s depressed level, to 11.8 million vehicles.

But outside national borders, the American-led war on drugs continues, bringing charges from participants that it is sowing violence and strife for little discernible gain.

Pakistan's military has conducted two previous operations in Swat, but each involved fewer ground troops than this offensive, and they were criticized as causing too much harm to civilians without discernible gains against the Taliban.

Weeks of bitter confrontations with Democrats and moderate Republicans will have yielded no discernible gains for conservatives – except, perhaps, for the display of power that have proven they can still exert over the embattled speaker of the House.

Notably, expression of the HA-Robo1 transgene in a wild-type background (which already carries two functional copies of the endogenous robo1 gene) did not produce any discernible gain-of-function effects, even when it was also present in two copies (i.e., in +, robo1 :: robo1 homozygous embryos).

When the beachheads were finally abandoned, after a year, some 21,000 British, 8,000 Australian and 2,700 New Zealand soldiers had died – for no discernible military gain.

In malingering, by contrast, the person stimulates or exaggerates an illness or disability to obtain some kind of discernible personal gain or to avoid an unpleasant situation; e.g., a prison inmate may simulate madness to obtain more-comfortable living conditions.

But that technology did not generate discernible productivity gains until the 1920s.

The electric motor, for example, was introduced in the 1880's but did not generate discernible productivity gains until the 1920's, when businesses reorganized work around the industrial production line, the efficiency breakthrough of its day.