Sentence examples for they discerned from inspiring English sources

The proposed tax was killed, Mr. Abramoff said, "once they discerned a conservative principle".

Still, at least a few said they discerned a "new strategy" from Washington.

In subsequent conversations they discerned that they were polar opposites when it came to athletic pursuits.

Critics of the L.A.P.D. coined a term to describe the type of malfeasance they discerned in the department — "force corruption".

Some specialists said they discerned a note of alarm in the Chinese response, suggesting that Beijing, calculating that the elder Mr. Kim would survive for several years, had been taken by surprise.

When President Bush first announced the choice of Paul O'Neill to be his secretary of the treasury, some veteran political observers thought they discerned in him a more liberal-minded worldview.

Though there is no evidence that the general Palestinian mood is becoming violent, they discern a distinct rise in radicalism.

The Fuga share a ritual language with Gurage women, which Gurage men may not learn lest they discern the mysteries of the female initiation ceremonies.

What they see precisely is unclear, but many say that in the chipped wood they discern a pattern that looks like the Madonna.

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.

In the angry clamoring of Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and of Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds in the north, many Iraqis, foreign diplomats and allied military officers say they discern the first smoke of broad communal strife.