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    Use "discriminating" in a sentence

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    discriminating


    1. Truth be told, had the wardrobe conventions of that period allowed, Chloe and Kaitlyn would each have now been idyllic models of the female form for even the discriminating sculptors of classical Greece


    2. And on the never-ending subject of political correctness manifested as racial sensitivity, how about the movement underway in the last few years to change to non-white, for the statue to be built at Ground Zero, the race of two of the three white guys that raised the flag there? These three white guys just happened to raise that flag, and they weren"t discriminating against anybody


    3. (Why do we do the things we do when we understand (beforehand) that it is wrong to do them?) I believe that many of us are oftentimes ―victims‖ of our own internal designs; adopting behavioral attitudes contrary to our discriminating nature(s) that fail to give proper pause to their origin, ―the (cause) of their origin, its history, its qualities and attributes and its results and effects‖


    4. Tolerance requires an ―intuitive‖ capacity to render sound (moral) judgments as they relate to essential motives and/or principle ideas that form the template of a well-ordered society that do not reflexively support tolerance for its own sake without giving proper pause to discriminating factors that correctly defines appropriate conduct


    5. Taking these three passages together it’s evident that the Greek term which is rendered “discerning” means a distinguishing or discriminating between things that are under consideration; hence, the one who possessed the gift of “discernings of spirits” was able to make distinction between a person who spoke by the Spirit of God and one who was moved by a false spirit


    6. Besides, the new operational systematics gives total opportunity of democratic participation in thousands of activities for the child, adult, senior or person with physical deficiency, without discriminating anybody


    7. Fate is certainly not a discriminating mistress


    8. All causes and effects, from great universes to fine dust come into apparent existence only by means of a discriminating mind


    9. ’3 In other words, the discriminating consciousness (associated with our dominant left brain) is also present in higher energy bodies and their universes


    10. The intuitive mind (associated with the right brain) of the individual acts as a bridge between the discriminating mind (associated with the left brain) and the Universal Mind (as noted in the Lankavatara Sutra, see Chapter 2)

    11. publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that immediately stands out among


    12. discriminating faculty of man


    13. The dog may have a will derived from nature and augmented by training, but such a power of mind is not a spiritual force, neither is it comparable to the human will, inasmuch as it is not reflective -- it is not the result of discriminating higher and moral meanings or choosing spiritual and eternal values


    14. Of course, Peter and his smooth talking could have precipitated and facilitated the indiscretion by making their affair seem justified and noble in light of other developments, but he would have thought that Peter would have had a much more discriminating taste in his choice of women


    15. Our guests are very discriminating in their tastes and choices of lodging


    16. The elite did it with bravado— a bullet to the brain following a massacre of innocents, while the less discriminating went down gasping with a busload or trainload of fellow lethal gas-inhalers


    17. There is openness to the subtle changes, to different emerging personality styles and moods and preferences along with the discriminating factors


    18. "Bang, if he wants to bid and he gives me a fair and competitive proposal, I don't have any intentions on favoring or discriminating against him


    19. The TV reporter, sniffing a story said, “Are you discriminating against former addicts?”


    20. The awareness that's here in this moment is alive, spacious, discriminating, and full of love

    21. The important thing is that they should have the true intention, but unfortunately they have weak intention depending upon their parents' wealth and seek special discriminating labor, Islam is not like this, because it urges a Muslim to be chaste and dignified by the dignity of Islam


    22. Most of the paper money was discriminating but what


    23. Eastern teachings have tried to explain this by discriminating between the thought, and the thinker of the thought


    24. Was he less discriminating, nowadays? Was it because of his age? How ironical that in his time of infirmity they should all seem to him so gorgeous


    25. This ego or "I" is not a lasting truth, much less our essential part; it is only a formation of nature; a mental form of thought, centralization in the perceiving and discriminating mind, a vital form of the centralization of feeling and sensation in our life


    26. and you could read and watch it with a discriminating eye, on the lookout for the errors,


    27. If God be thought of as an unintelligible Power of darkness, who is capable of tormenting 'non-elect’ creatures throughout eternity, who can wonder if thinking men endeavor to nullify the evidence of His Being and agency? But let it be seen beforehand that the God in whom Christians believe, while acting in the moral sphere with that severe eternal love of law which nature itself reveals, is yet appreciably good and discriminating even in His righteous judgments, and men will more willingly trace His presence and handiwork in the physical universe


    28. So, what should we do about this problem? It's very simple: just realize that more is not better for golf instruction and to continue to read and listen to golf tips with a very discriminating eye


    29. A discriminating nose she had for scents, prolonged, as if in quest of them; her underlip protruded a narrow red shelf; her eyes were small, with sandy tufts for eyebrows, and her jowl was heavy


    30. In our medical civil rights movement, getting this information and creating real fairness and transparency is the only way to finally rid the nation of its separate but unequal system of discriminating against Americans with mental illnesses and addictions

    31. discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth


    32. But we incline to the view that the discriminating and careful investor is again likely to find a reasonable number of attractive opportunities presented in this field


    33. But as the bill was finally passed it effectively superposed partnership taxation on top of corporate taxation, thus heavily discriminating against the corporate form and especially against small stockholders


    34. This qualitative assessment allows the discriminating investor to single out truly good businesses


    35. Furthermore, in this wide array of companies there is plenty of room for penetrating analysis of the past record and for discriminating choice in the area of future prospects, to which can be added the higher assurance of safety conferred by diversification


    36. So one of the challenges value investors face in an age when information is no longer a scarce resource is to find some value metric that is less easily uncovered than net-net but no less discriminating in its ability to identify underpriced securities


    37. He was brought in when Denny’s faced many lawsuits for discriminating against black customers, and he successfully transformed Denny’s public image issues into a number-one ranking in Fortune magazine’s “Best Companies for Minorities” category in 2000 and 2001


    38. When I looked again, the busy handling-machine had already put together several of the pieces of apparatus it had taken out of the cylinder into a shape having an unmistakable likeness to its own; and down on the left a busy little digging mechanism had come into view, emitting jets of green vapour and working its way round the pit, excavating and embanking in a methodical and discriminating manner


    39. And yet, if you had a discriminating ear, there were in it the elements of a concord such as these plains never saw nor heard


    40. And you did laugh, when you looked round as I came in ; I was not very discriminating at that time, and your smile rejoiced my heart

    41. But the administrative chiefs who regulate and supervise convict labour in Siberia, and from whom subordinates take their tone as well as their orders, are careful to exercise a discriminating treatment in the case of persons of noble birth, and, in some cases, grant them special indulgences as compared with the lot of convicts of lower condition


    42. He was in favor of discriminating duties, because he was opposed to the non-intercourse, which he considered the best means of depressing our navigating interest and advancing that of Britain; because the produce of the United States would be carried to some place of depot in the vicinity, and thence be carried to Europe in British bottoms, while a large proportion of American shipping would be inactive


    43. With this discriminating, permanent, municipal law, could we expect Great Britain to treat with us as a neutral? If we did, we should be disappointed


    44. Bode, of Berlin in various writings has shown a more discriminating knowledge of this subject than other writers, nevertheless the work of Cavallucci and Molinier, Les Della Robbia, was more useful to me as a guide and starter


    45. Sir, the Government did right in discriminating between Britain and France, and selecting the former


    46. "It is sensible, earnest, candid, and discriminating, and, withal, thoroughly interesting


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    Synonyms for "discriminating"

    discriminating acute incisive keen knifelike penetrating penetrative piercing sharp cultivated artistic inventive refined polished aesthetic

    "discriminating" definitions

    showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste


    having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions