Sentence examples for discrepant from inspiring English sources

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] argumentSIR – I love the way you throw around wildly discrepant estimates of the population influx to the United States based on the proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants ("Cross-border suspicions", May 20th).

The conflict, he remarks, has long been plagued by "discrepant historical rhythms".

As with gender, this novel, seemingly discrepant image of the popular bully may result from the expansion in the definition of harmful actions or changes in bullying behaviour itself to include cyberbullying and other forms of covert harassment.

Finally, infants begin displaying signs of the emotion of fear by their fourth to sixth month; a fearful response to novelty i.e., to events that are moderately discrepant from the infant's knowledge can be observed as early as four months.

Sensory rivalry, in which one stimulus inhibits the perception of another, may result from a conflict of cues if sensory information is ambiguous or discrepant, as in the tilted-room experiment discussed above, during which the visual sense conflicts with cues from the sense of equilibrium.

More significantly, other tests of relativity theory supported it in so many different ways as to lead to the consensus that one discrepant set of observations cannot be allowed to weigh against the theory.

Monkeys have been taught to solve the oddity problem: presented with two objects of one kind and one of another, they can be trained to select the discrepant one.

His dedication to the work pays rich dividends here in the elating skill with which he brings each of the play's discrepant and discontinuous modes to shockingly powerful life.

This approach allows Groff to offer two radically discrepant accounts of the same period.

They were going to discuss the status of women in the film industry — their comparatively low numbers, their discrepant salaries — and it didn't matter if those women were movie stars or grips, or if her meeting required a large application of charm, dazzle, and good humor.

That could have been fatigue or boredom from months of reunion touring, or sound issues, or a bad approximation of what Pavement used to be through the 1990s: mercurial, discrepant, occasionally a mess.