For example, Mr. Knowles's group has discerned ways to measure community engagement, a critical element of a school's success.
Many of these issues are perfectly valid and legitimate, and it is only through understanding what causes such apprehensions to arise and persist that parents can discern ways to properly deal with them.
Because liberal whites cannot discern ways to make substantive change, she argued, they're looking for symbolic relief.
And suddenly, I'm fumbling a bit, slow at discerning the way.
More intriguingly, out of the somewhat mind-numbing accumulation of detail, it becomes possible to discern the ways in which chemistry, rather than character, drives Christie's plots.
She hoped, for a while, to see Farrah Fawcett play Dagny Taggart in a television mini-series of "Atlas Shrugged," since she had discerned the ways in which "Charlie's Angels" favored romantic aspiration over naturalistic squalor.
In general, we can discern two ways that Nishida made use of Asian sources: anecdotally and systematically.
So too, is the need to discern appropriate ways of working for peace in each time and place "rather than relying on a dogma of unvarying rules of conduct".
If Colombia or South Africa fail to discern the ways in which inequality is driving citizens to protest and effectively respond to that discontent (as Colombia promised to do in Buenaventura), confidence in state institutions and the state itself will decrease.
As a Christian white man, it is important I follow the lead of my African American colleagues and friends in this growing multi-faith movement for justice, and I call on my fellow white allies to do the same -- conversing, creating and advocating -- as we discern creative ways the church can bear bold witness in this urgent moment with a spirit of humble solidarity.
