In any sport, it takes only a glance--two seconds, tops--to discern that sport's particular defining talent.
This of course makes it easier to discern that Lennon was in fact a master melodist and McCartney a gifted lyricist.
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McCANN: We are certainly, I'm sure, trying to discern that that was an actual voice transmission, and not a pre-recorded transmission designed to deceive the U.S. concerning his whereabouts.
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Within the restaurant, there was the normal hum of diners and servers, the clinking of forks and cups, making it hard to discern that anything outside of the restaurant was in any way unusual.
The holy grail of investing: how to discern opportunities for value that are outstanding in a competitive marketplace.
One need not look too hard to discern the sorts of threats that could well preoccupy official Washington in the months ahead.
The results may be surprising because previous studies tended to look at mostly married couples, so that gender differences were misleading or hard to discern.
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Critics point out that they have yet to discern what benefit Britain's economy will gain from the Romanian deal.
"Palaeontologists were not so happy because these are the intricacies of DNA that are very difficult to discern based on mammoth tusks and teeth, " he added.
People looking at the blurry photograph were understandably less confident about the weight of the people pictured therein, given that it was harder to discern just how many people were in the picture.
There is a big difference between finding disgruntled customer posts and having an end-to-end system that can automatically discern which posts warrant response, record them in the customer service and CRM system, route them to the right subject matter expert or agent, and report on the result.
Judges could not, and should not, seek to discern the truth about a marriage from the recriminations that followed a break-up.
As a result, it is unlikely that most debtors will be able to discern problems with their accounts without extensive discovery.
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Sands , CEO of Lexicon Genetics (nasdaq: LEXG - news - people), a genomics firm that knocks genes out of mice to discern their function.
That is the ultimate challenge to discern what will or could happen and acting on it.
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He had a certain practical wisdom that enabled him to survive, but Tengo could discern no hint of a willingness in his father to deepen himself, to view a wider, larger world.
It is much harder to discern any clear pattern with this group but I have no doubt that with a bit of digging academics will unearth the important correlations.
The rest is pulled from social media services like Instagram, Path, Color, Yelp, Foodspotting and the like, as well as Twitter posts that have been analyzed using natural-language processing to discern what companies and businesses people are chatting about.
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Only thorough research could discern that residents of high-rise buildings are more likely to be victims of crime, because stacked tenants make for poor monitors of the surrounding streets.
Under pooling rules, companies that are combining simply add their accounts together, making it impossible to discern the cost of the acquisition.
Yet it seems that from even a little distance, the picture is pretty easy to discern: the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton is as interesting to Americans as is Major League Soccer.
And, according to the company's reps, the RGB LCD panel that lies beneath makes the 1280 x 720 HD Reality display much easier to discern in bright sunlight.
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Using one of the oldest methods to discern the direction of the Dow, Richard Moroney, editor of Dow Theory Forecasts notes that the new high in the industrials is by definition a bullish event.
That may be because these places are very energetic, which makes it difficult to discern orbiting planets using our current observation techniques.
He argues that teenagers are surrounded by an array of suspect material and are well able to discern between fiction and reality.
They are merely a gang of clowns, blown here and there by events that they are barely able to understand, and for which they are unable to discern a proper solution.
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In essence, Privateer is helping to fill the void left by skittish banks that have all but refused to grant loans to pot-friendly businesses until they discern which way the legal winds are blowing.
So I want to just clarify -- does the President believe that the viewers, the listeners, can discern the difference between a paid campaign ad and a third-party ad, which is something that you just suggested?
One woman who has dated fifty-eight men since her divorce, a few years ago, told me that she maintains a chart, both to keep the men straight and to try to discern patterns as though there might be a unified-field theory of why men are dogs.
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