The scientists zeroed in on the raw genetic material of the collected microbes, thus finding more than methods of culturing them with special foods could ever discern.
I won't pretend that with 24 dancers swirling in front of me, each cycling through the sequence, I could always (or ever) discern what was missing.
It is his job to come with ideas for a response in case any searchers ever discern, amid the crackle and hiss of radio waves from outer space, the equivalent of a "Hi there -- what's your name?" It was the search for a suitable answer that found Dr. Vakoch, standing on a lonely sidewalk here late one chilly evening looking for the back way into a brick building.
In the modern jambalaya of online dating, arranged weddings, bicoastal relationships, open marriages and serial divorce, a bona fide union can be harder than ever to discern, leaving lovers who are unable to produce a land-line telephone bill facing questions about birth control.
Schumacher used to say, a "meta-economic" truth--that is bigger and deeper and, oh, so much more durable than any truth that will ever be discerned from the most expert reading of the Dow Jones tea leaves.
It made editors, clients and the ever-discerning mannequin Naomi Campbell swoon.
Driven by ever more discerning and demanding consumers, the once-clear divide between designer and mass-market fashion is beginning to blur.
In an ever more discerning world, Megan Larsen's ethics are increasingly relevant.
Not to suggest we were ever that discerning before about the music we buy as a collective, but now that things are free, we don't have to give a second thought to dedicating 40 million YouTube plays to Sweet Brown, the Oklahoma resident who narrowly escaped an apartment fire without her shoes.
Ever get tired of discerning distorted characters from CAPTCHAs that prevent websites from being cracked by bots, but sometimes drive people to madness?
Standing out in a customer's inbox is becoming harder than ever, thanks to increasingly discerning email users.
