For at present we are speaking of the vices of the nature, which has a mental capacity for that enlightenment which discriminates between what is just and what is unjust.
Man is below other animals in this sense; he discriminates little in smells except the pleasurable and the painful.
The Proprium per se discriminates the subject from everything else; the relative Proprium discriminates it from some given correlate.
The Proprium per se discriminates its subject from everything else, and is universally true thereof; the relative Proprium discriminates its subject only from some other assignable subject.
Themistius here speaks with a precision which is not always present to the mind of Aristotle; for he discriminates the cause of the fact from the cause of the affirmed fact or conclusion.
With sure prompt insight he discriminates what is what: a strong just man, he speaks-forth what is the wise course, and all men follow him in that.
Fichte discriminates with sharp zeal the true Literary Man, what we here call the Hero as Man of Letters, from multitudes of false unheroic.
The civilized world judges the causes of war, and discriminates between motives and pretexts: the former are respected when true and valid--the latter are always despised and exposed.
One single feature is some relief to the sadness of the picture, and discriminates this defeat from most others suffered at the hands of Indians.
In a state of suspension they are all of one credit; but as the light of a candle soon discriminates the black cats from the white ones, so would the touch of a bankrupt act speedily show the difference between a rotten bank and a solvent one.
In business affairs he displays sound judgment and discriminates readily between the essential and the non-essential, discarding the latter and utilizing the former to the best possible advantage.
In a word his sound judgment discriminates between the essential and the non-essential in regard to municipal affairs just as surely as it does in relation to the interests of the bank, which has grown so steadily under his direction.
She can do this the more successfully, the better she discriminates the common and essential from the individual and local elements of the religious beliefs which she compares.
Saint Teresa discriminates between pain in which the body has a part and pure spiritual pain (Interior Castle, 6th Abode, ch.
As teachers and workers it is an incontestable fact that Indian Officers have distinguished themselves very highly, and anything which discriminates between Europeans and Indians in the way of pay and prospects is most undesirable.
As teachers and workers it is an incontestable fact that Indian officers have distinguished themselves very highly, and anything which discriminates between Europeans and Indians in the way of pay and prospects is most undesirable.
With sure prompt insight hediscriminates what is what: a strong just man, he speaks forth what is the wise course, and all men follow him in that.
The flight of the prophet from Mecca to Medina has fixed the memorable aera of the Hegira, [118] which, at the end of twelve centuries, still discriminates the lunar years of the Mahometan nations.
The former decides whether a thing should be done or not, and discriminates between the proper and the improper in human actions and qualities.
The rational faculty is the power of the soul by which a person reflects, acquires knowledge, discriminates between a praiseworthy act and a blameworthy.
And therefore, if thou wilt carefully consider that immediate presentment whereby it discriminates all things, thou wilt more rightly deem it not foreknowledge as of something future, but knowledge of a moment that never passes.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
The French Academy discriminatesin its Sentiments sur le Cid between two types of probability, “ordinary” and “extraordinary.
Neither the President nor the Congress nor the conscience of this Nation can permit money which comes from all the people to be used in a way which discriminates against some of the people.
When popular usage discriminates between them it discriminates in the right direction; there is a vague but not uncertain feeling that savagery is a lower stage than barbarism.
What do you mean when you say that the "hated company discriminates against the interests of Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania?
The evolution of these symbols goes on spontaneously, suggested by our tendency to utter all manner of sounds, and preserved by the ease with which the ear discriminates these sounds when made.
All things are not equally beautiful because the subjective bias that discriminates between them is the cause of their being beautiful at all.
She assigns her reasons for the choice of her historians, and discriminates between the two authors.
He discriminates three principal varieties of mankind, taking the color of the hair as the leading character, which he styles the melanic, the xanthous, and the leucous.
A better union of tints, and some easier arrangement in the folds of his draperies, though with a profusion of gold lace, is all that discriminates him from the crudeness and exility of the ancient style.
We are in favor of doing away with every law that discriminates against a man on account of his belief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discriminates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
