Word: discern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easier to trace the authors. Services like Skype also use encryption technology to scramble calls, so eavesdroppers can't decipher what's being said without a software "key" to decode the transmission. There's another benefit, too: in Vietnam's crowded Internet caf?s, it's tough for police to discern which of the mass of headphone-wearing youths might be talking about democracy and which are simply online gamers or teens chatting innocuously...
...drunk-driving charge in Malibu, Calif. "I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said," the Passion of the Christ director said in a statement, adding that he would like to meet with Jewish leaders to "discern the appropriate path for healing...
...whole triggered by the women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend stories are notoriously difficult to substantiate—for every 10 anecdotes pointing one way, one can easily find 20 the other. This particular...
There is no humility in either Skilling or Lay. As I watched Lay after the verdict, I was deeply dismayed by his inability to discern truth. He did not discern the truth of my warnings in August 2001. He failed to discern the truth of his own culpability; he refuses to take responsibility. He hides behind words of Scripture, but even these he misuses...
...Walking away from the Seine and left into Rue de l'Universit?, the AIAC creates a subtle impression at first. The grey building tones into the area's fin-de-siecle streetscape, until you discern the scarification marks sandblasted onto the fa?ade. Then looking up, you begin to make out the painted ceilings inside; Yunupingu's stars flash. "It's something that you discover slowly, little by little," explains MQB deputy director Philippe Peltier, a member of the AIAC's curatorial team. "You really have to read the building and the pieces inside...