Some Chinese businessmen, as well as reporters, who return from trips to India praise the openness and free speech there, or point to the "inner peace" and happiness that they discern among even poor Indians.
We cannot account for evangelicals' history or their role in politics without paying attention to the substance of their beliefs and the social and scientific lessons their communities teach them to draw from the Bible — lessons reinforced, perhaps, by the sound of God's voice that they discern in their own ears.
Attendees lamented the "crony capitalism" that they discerned at the forefront of the chamber's agenda, while Mike Needham, Heritage Action's CEO, declared that his group's priorities would differ from those "talked about in the halls of Congress, the pages of Politico or the scorecard of the Chamber of Commerce".
In this study, the participants described situations that they discerned in their professional work, which allowed a more comprehensive description of the professional approaches in clinical judgements.
What they see precisely is unclear, but many say that in the chipped wood they discern a pattern that looks like the Madonna.
They'll know who lives next door, if they know that property you're calling about, and will call police on your behalf if they discern that you're not on the level.
"Mr. Roberts, Terrence McNallyy's more polished contribution, carries life in Homer to the 1970's and the puzzlement of Toby Anderson Jonathan Taylor Thomass), a high school senior, scholar, swimmer and pianist who is taunted and beaten up by his classmates when they discern that he isn't like them.
But Palm Beach used the clear intent of the voter and found hundreds of ballots that they could discern the clear intent of the voter from that were not machine-read.
The recent report by an independent panel indicating that many child-abuse caseworkers are so inadequately trained that they cannot discern what families need addresses a chronic problem ("Bleak Assessment Offered on City's Child Welfare System," news article, March 10).
The so-called literary critics who investigate all of their no-doubt critical leads, and chastise Mr. Sedaris for being disingenuous are, therefore, either bored, humorless or so lacking in creativity that they cannot discern the ethical difference between a falsified memoir about drug abuse and a hilarious (and embellished) take on everyday life.
Furthermore, ravens discriminated between unfamiliar ravens in the habituation-dishabituation experiment, indicating that they may discern individual differences.
