The note is too crumpled, in short, for its true value to be discerned.
Amid a fog of jargon, real anxiety can be discerned in some Pentagon statements.
That's more easily discerned in, say, medieval cathedrals than in art deco architecture like the Chrysler Building.
Whatever you think about Warren or his religious beliefs, he has discerned a consumer need out there.
The advance and retreat of the ice sheets can thus be discerned quite accurately from such sediment cores.
The Court discerned no such intent on the part of the 1789 Congress.
He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data.
Even before running any statistical tests on the two samples, I discerned that pay-performance anomalies abound far more than in the secretarial world.
The paper has discerned an "intensifying strategy" from 10 Downing Street to seize credit from the Chancellor's residence, number 11.
In so far as Mr Bush's views can be discerned, they would appear to lean slightly towards trying to remove Saddam.
The lonely outline of the host is discerned near an unlit sconce.
Google is really not much different from age-old direct marketing, in which a propensity for product interest is discerned, and a pitch made.
Mr Sharon, whose heart is with the settlers, discerned, probably rightly, that if he continued to oppose the fence he would be brought down.
The strategy worked, Mr. Joiner says, because his personality "screams kitsch, " a fact that can easily be discerned from reading his blog, www.marketingheadhunter.com, about careers in marketing.
No clear cause appears to have been discerned yet, with some commenters writing the issues have evaporated, while some say battery life has been cut in half.
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The breakthrough here had to do with the fact that the mathematical key for unlocking a secret message cannot be discerned from the key that locked it up.
In the kitchen, Vasquez and Fogg discerned only smoke and heat damage a sign that the fire had not originated there and so they pushed deeper into the nine-hundred-and-seventy-five-square-foot building.
Below the surface, though, some broader trends can be discerned.
Prior work has shown that the precise type of bacteria responsible for lung infections or even the presence of stomach cancer could be discerned in the breath.
Even more notable than the consistency of support levels over time is the fact that researchers discerned no difference in levels of support for Israel across the political spectrum.
The trouble is partly that discerned by Cooper himself: they are too much a record of meals eaten, people met (a name-dropper's delight) and places visited without much comment.
Furthermore, empathy experienced in a human relationship will always be different from the experience of being known by some data-mining organization, however accurate the information may be that is discerned.
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Dr. Atkinson figured that if a similar founder effect could be discerned in phonemes, it would support the idea that modern verbal communication originated on that continent and only then expanded elsewhere.
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An older cast to the pictures that win awards can be discerned over time, but young-skewing and hipper movies are often compensated in the screenplay category (from Pulp Fiction to Lost in Translation).
In one of its first data analyses in May 2011, Startup Compass discerned that tech start-ups with two or three founders were most able to strike a balance between sticking to a plan and changing the direction of the business.
The application not only provides instantaneous updates on data that can eventually be discerned from the games final box score, but also creates insights using a combination of player and situation statistics that would otherwise never be available from traditional real-time communication channels.
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As the United States undertakes a major strategic shift towards Africa and as America's first president of African descent settles into his third week in the White House amid a severe economic crisis, there may indeed be an opportunity to be discerned in the confluence of developments.
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