Sentence examples for discrete acts from inspiring English sources

These discrete acts are, in the systems that preëxisted Langton, also discrete chapters.

The Supreme Court drew a sharp distinction between "discrete acts" of discrimination and the continuing effects of past violations.

Justice Thomas said the right to sue over "discrete acts" of discrimination, those that occurred on a given day, was forfeited after 300 days.

"Discrete acts of homosexuality" were condemned in the Bible because they were acts of lust instead of the "love, forgiveness, grace" of committed same-sex relationships, the bishop said.

To classify events as discrete acts in an 'insurgency' or 'terrorism', 'civil war' or 'livelihood conflict' is often a reductive choice, leaving out the complex ways in which conflict creates multiple scales of violence and intended outcomes within a territory.

When cases are filed for discrete acts, it is hard to see how they have much effect on the banks beyond making another payment or the public perception that misconduct is being successfully redressed.

Sodomy was not the definitional element of a person's sexual orientation, but a discrete act.

F.A.A. employees cannot sue on the theory that each paycheck constitutes "a discrete act of discrimination," the judge said.

Publishing is a discrete act, separate from whether something is public or not.

Nor is the case controlled by decisions permitting prosecution under statutes defining as the criminal offense a discrete act, after a prior conviction or acquittal of a distinguishable discrete act that is a separate violation of the statute.

Function refers to the way in which behaviour takes on significance, not as a discrete act but as the dynamic aspect of some structure.