Word: discernibly
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Most professor say they are confident in Harvard students' ability to discern what they should know and to seek it out for themselves...
...mixture of private, state, military and sometimes even American interests; figuring out which companies to penalize could drive the U.S. Customs Service insane. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord has suggested targeting specific products instead. But with a few exceptions such as assault rifles, it is not easy to discern which ones come from state or army enterprises...
...style derives from a hard-won discipline. Oliver Tambo, his former law partner and the longtime leader of the A.N.C. in exile who died last year, once described the youthful Mandela as "passionate, emotional, sensitive, quickly stung to bitterness and retaliation by insult and patronage." Who can discern those characteristics in the controlled Nelson Mandela of today? He now prizes rationality, logic, compromise, and distrusts sentiment. Prison steeled him, and over the decades he came to see emotion not as an ally but as a demon to be shunned. How was the man who emerged from prison different from...
Because so many members of the phylum Final Clubicus are also members of the phylum Jockicus, the two can be difficult to discern. The important thing to remember here is that, while both try to drink beer as if it were water and both love sports as if they mattered, some members of the Final Clubicus are not actually of the phylum Jockicus...
Whoever follows Blackmun will find a court in which the sharp divisions of 10 years ago have subsided for now and the ideological direction is hard to discern. The centrist bloc that has emerged includes Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and probably the most recent new Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is almost certainly a supporter of abortion rights. Since she replaced Byron White, an opponent, the court majority to uphold Roe v. Wade appears secure...