Word: discernible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miraculous testimonies abounded on Richard Roberts' swing through Wisconsin. It was impossible to discern which people might have been cured and which were subject only to passing psychological relief. Some could even have sworn to have been made well, hoping that a taped segment of the event would make Oral's television show. Like all Christian faith healers, Richard attributes any cures to God's power, not his own, and says of his role: "If they say they are healed, no matter what you or anybody else thinks, you sure can't deny...
...submitted work in a manner such that an instructor in a course might reasonably have assumed that it was the student's own when in fact it was not. In other situations a student has simply failed to follow the rules of citation properly but it is possible to discern what is the student's work and what is the work of others. As a result of these conversations, the Board has sought to make certain that every student in the College has access to all the necessary understandings about citation and the use of sources so that misunderstanding does...
...greatest of maestros should have proved himself in symphonic music as well as in opera. Levine has not done that. Sir Georg Solti has. If you compare their respective recordings of Mozart's Don Giovanni, you will discern how superior Solti's conducting...
...Nonetheless, all of France remained fascinated last week with an extraordinary campaign by the Soviet government and the French Communist Party that demanded a greater diversity of views in the reporting by France's state-run radio and television networks. The reason for the hubbub was easy to discern: a desire to affect French news coverage of the Italian allegation that the Bulgarian secret police, and by implication the Soviet KGB, were behind Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ah Agca's attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul...
Government at the top is human analysis. The leaders of the two superpowers try to discern each other's intentions and resolve, hoping to leave impressions of their own self-confidence and strength. At great distances, through diplomats and letters, the task is nearly impossible; in the face-to-face encounters at summits there is a chance for better understanding, even a cautious friendship...