Sentence examples for telling signal from inspiring English sources

Writers with a good ear (Salinger, John O'Hara) certainly listen more acutely than the rest of us, but what they really have is a better filter for telling signal from noise, and then turning it into song.

At the White House on Thursday afternoon, the American president outlined an everything-but-the-war strategy that was classic Barack Obama: his press briefing offered perhaps a telling signal about his own expansive version of the Global War on Terror, while still managing to be subtly evasive about what he might actually do in Iraq.

While Mr. Romney may not know for weeks or even months whether he will win the nomination, his performance over the next seven days will most likely provide a telling signal about whether he can persuade the party at last to embrace his candidacy.

A peaceful handover at the end of May would send a telling signal to leaders elsewhere in Africa, some of whom want to breach their constitutional term limits.

For now, however, state regulators will stick with the sweeping sanctuary as the most telling signal yet of their determination to protect the blue crab stock and ward off another catastrophe on the order of the demise of the bay's oyster fishery.

Perhaps the most telling signal of the shift in German public opinion was the warm reception accorded "This Death Suits Me," the collected letters of Schulze-Boysen, when it was published last fall.

The relatively small amount that Spain sought to raise was itself telling, signaling that the government was reluctant to borrow at the current high rates.

Along with these distinctions have come a few more strange and telling signals: a house that literally burned down is asking for $2 million; a Metro Vancouver municipality has introduced an awkward "English only" bylaw; the BC Supreme Court recently ruled you can't quit paying spousal support even when your ex-wife's home value near-doubles.

He joined Signal  reluctantly, he told Signal employees, only after his uncle had "put a lot of pressure" on him and sweetened the deal with a company car.

This traffic shaping, as it's called, doesn't prevent the devices from working (many of them worked surprisingly well with artificially slowed connections), but it does make it hard for an attacker to tell signal from noise.

A lack of work, we are often told, signals a lack of character.