Sentence examples for seeking to discern from inspiring English sources

The Council is seeking to discern how many of those calls included people who showed symptoms of choking, cardiac arrest or other life-threatening conditions.

I am committed to entering that process in a spirit of honesty and integrity, seeking to discern the spirit of God at work in the church as we seek to understand the nature of marriage in the future".

Thus, in seeking to discern what is true of anything that has come to be as a result of a change and is subject to change until it ceases to be, Aristotle had to begin with a particular example of change, one so obvious that we would not be distracted by any difficulties in accepting it as such.

It added: "The Church of England has a long tradition of tolerating conscientious dissent and of seeking to avoid drawing lines too firmly, not least when an issue is one where the people of God are seeking to discern the mind of Christ in a fast-changing context.

Sister of Timothy and Nicholas, longtime employee of the City, devoted to her family, she sought to discern beauty and truth.

We, too, often seek to discern a kind of order — to find a plot — in the hodgepodge of events we call history.

Judges could not, and should not, seek to discern the truth about a marriage from the recriminations that followed a break-up.

For example, experimental inquiry may seek to discern how malignancies in a human organism change in relation to variations in specific forms of treatment, or how students become better learners when exposed to particular methods of instruction.

But we commend them and stand by them, as we seek to discern how we must express and apply the eternal truth of the gospel in the ever-changing world of our own generation".

Such accusations are commonplace in political debate here, but after General Baduel's comments, military analysts sought to discern what effect he might have within the country's armed forces, which are engulfed in internal discussion over Mr. Chávez's attempts to politicize their ranks at the expense of institutional independence.

"The voters are the owners of our government," the court said, "and our rule that we seek to discern the voter's intention and to give it effect reflects the proper relation between government and those to whom it is responsible".