Their main worry was that shareholders might discern differences between themselves and the company’s management.

A sociologist might surely be expected to discern differences and to understand them.

Some listeners have claimed to discern differences between the instruments he used in different songs.

Now that they were standing side by side, she could discern differences and would not mistake the two of them again.

Even so, many professionals can discern differences.

Having established that, Mykel looked more closely at the carving itself, trying to discern differences between the figures of the seltyrs.

Though pragmatism trumps principles in all the parties, it is possible to discern differences in ideology.

These analyses help discern differences among the numerous and varied debt instruments, often across a number of different European jurisdictions.'

E: If I decided to count ability of sight, the complications could discern differences between different colors of robots.

Additionally, Lockean psychology suggested that a natural sense or quality of mind allowed persons to see unity in perceptions and to discern differences in groups.

Structural, functional and comparative genomics are being conducted to discern differences between Atlantic and Pacific coastal strains.

Some men report that the drugs have similar side effects, which can include headache, flushing and a stuffed nose, Dr. Sharlip said, while others discern differences.

Frequent sampling of effluent perifusion medium and a variable stimulation format allowed us to discern differences in the effects of the secretagogues.

Out of this repetitive mass of downtrodden, vulnerable, prayerful figures, a viewer slowly discerns differences in the bend of the burlap.

By the third measure the study examined to discern differences among states - the percentage of blacks in intensely minority schools - New York's schools were the third-most-segregated.

But on second glance, a more scrutinizing second glance, a perceptive inspector would discern differences in our facial expressions and in our demeanor.

It is almost impossible for anybody less than a specialised expert in the specific field of these types of fish to discern differences between males and females of the species.

Frequent juggling of program schedules and replacement of shows "have disciplined the viewers to be undisciplined" and made it difficult for viewers to discern differences among the three networks, he added.

Socrates discerned differences in the conception of the beautiful, for example, in innanimate objects, the effectiveness of execution of design was a deciding factor on the perception of beauty in something.

Golden ears claim to be able to discern subtle differences in audio reproduction that most inexperienced and untrained listeners cannot, much like trained wine experts claim to discern differences among wines inexperienced tasters cannot.

In the early 1970s, Shell was able to discern differences between Iran and Saudi Arabia (while everyone else perceived the Arab oil nations as a homogenous cartel) and thus anticipate the shortages that led to the 1973 oil crisis.

In Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, on Monday, a columnist commented, "When you look at pictures from Iraq and pictures from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, it is sometimes hard to discern differences between them."

In heart versus brain comparisons, oligonucleotide probes, like their cDNA probe counterparts, could reproducibly discern differences in mRNA populations as low as twofold (namely, 14-3-3 protein gamma) and as high as around 90-fold (namely, creatine kinase).

This makes it possible to discern differences in DNA sequences or mutations of various genes: sequence differences in fragments of the same length often cause them to partially melt at different positions in the gradient and therefore "stop" at different positions in the gel.