How To Use Discriminating In A Sentence

‘The composer's operetta appeals to a less discriminating taste for melody, harmony and rhythm,’ he said.
I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
Is discriminating on the grounds of sex more acceptable than discriminating on the basis of skin colour?
When did creativity take on this relatively indiscriminating meaning - referring to anything good?
Are audiences so undiscriminating that they will plunk down $9 to see something this creatively bankrupt?

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The club agreed last year to stop discriminating and mend their ways, but gee, when nobody was looking they backslid got sued again in March. Martha Burk: One More Black Eye for Arizona
More discriminating visitors now tend to shun the area.
I recently posted an advertisement for a vacancy and want to avoid discriminating against minority groups.
He said the move increased parental choice and responded to complaints that the Government was discriminating against church schools.
Cosatu demanded the government give paid time off for education programmes about AIDS, and "decriminalise" the disease by not discriminating against workers carrying HIV, the virus that causes ANC Daily News Briefing
For the moment then, the TV executive who discriminated against me because of my plebeian roots is probably safe to continue discriminating against other cheeky upstarts.
He has won prizes from his peers and plaudits from discriminating academics.
Victor has a preference for Hunsden, full as strong as I deem desirable, being considerably more potent decided, and indiscriminating, than any I ever entertained for that personage myself. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Is discriminating on the grounds of sex more acceptable than discriminating on the basis of skin colour?
Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
Parental lineage has never been a discriminating factor for or against anyone.
They have discriminating taste and an appreciation of craftsmanship.
Books were a jumble and I had no notion of discriminating between them.
Treasured by kings, wise men and people of discriminating taste for millennia, the aroma of frankincense and myrrh evokes feelings of warmth, comfort, majesty, reverence and peace.
To the most undiscriminating true believers, he was a disaster.
Again, in the silent night-watches, did sage Mentor become vocal, going over afresh the story of the Nervous and the Mucous, classifying their victims, generalizing laws, discriminating the various dyspepsies of the nations, and summing up at last the inestimable benefits conferred by our modern dyspepsy on the character, the literature, and the life of this nineteenth century. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
Discriminating the various objects within the world requires a system of labelling that can allow independent manipulation of those objects.
The use of quail as donor and chick as host provides a means for discriminating donor cells in the host environment due the unique properties of the quail nucleolus.
After a couple months of researching and discriminating, i finally ramped up for production, bought the best ingredients i could find and, as a typically french expression litterally puts it, threw myself off into cold water ... The Fresh Loaf
Today, the discriminating traveller will still be well rewarded by a summer holiday in this area.
Many South African marriages have as their foundation bride-price, or lobola, which is coming under fire from parliamentarians and jurists for discriminating against the rights of women. ANC Daily News Briefing
The technique of item-gain and item-loss was effective in discriminating elaborative processing from organizational processing.
late thirties to cater for the more discriminating clientele of the valleys. GOODBYE CURATE
It counts for more than most human qualities and provides the fairest proxy for "merit" in discriminating among people. The Tests and the Brightest
The old-new recognition task in the first experiment revealed that some subjects were fairly accurate in discriminating between primes and distractors.
Linguistic usage is a market whose purity would delight the heart of the crabbiest libertarian, brutally culling the weak and perpetuating the strong, but never discriminating against the young upstart. Should you use jargon in your Focus leaflets?
Sadly it is true that many Brits are undiscriminating drinkers.
My comments are those of an occasional patient, a discriminating consumer, and a visual critic.
A mere indiscriminating restriction of the birth-rate — an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessation of distresses but stagnation, and the minor good of a sort of comfort and social stability is won at too great A Modern Utopia
The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
Brent if you will look at history you will find that the winner or ruling class always has treated the losers or minorities in discriminating ways .. So is SubComandante Marcos a good guy or a bad guy ?
Jesus said, "I have come to bring good news," Luke 4 which he described as rescue of the poor and freedom for those held captive by destructive and discriminating religious and social systems gone mad. Steve McSwain: New Rules For The Global Neighborhood
Children in particular suffer a lot from the deformity, even if the insulting and discriminating term 'harelip' has fortunately almost died out. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Other conservative groups blasted her role in drafting the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a bill that would ban employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Obama's Gay Appointees Smash Record
Shouldn't I burn in hell for my indiscriminating taste? October 10th, 2006
The federal order to stop discriminating provoked outrage on the part of several school board members.
He is incapable of discriminating between a good idea and a terrible one.
Her topic: How broadband service providers are and should be regulated in discriminating against legal content and applications. Archive 2009-03-01
The standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients show the relative association between the discriminating variables and the discriminant functions.
It's only troubling if voters think that not discriminating is wrong. Balkinization
My bookseller has dwelt so long in his corner with folios and quartos and other antique tomes that he talks in black-letter and has the modest, engaging look of a brown old stout binding, and to the delectation of discriminating olfactories he exhaleth an odor of mildew and of tobacco commingled, which is more grateful to the true bibliophile than all the perfumes of Araby. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Nothing shows more forcibly the power of association in minds not capable of discriminating, than that the name of a man so obviously a reluctant instrument in the hands of God, and who declared by a public act his abhorrence of the part he was forced to act, should be selected as synonymous to every thing fiendlike and murderous. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
This film is for those undiscriminating movie-goers who want nothing more from a trip to the multiplex than loud, raucous, mindless entertainment.
In five years since coming to England, he had received royal notice as poet and playwright, the subscription had gone well, he enjoyed the friendships of men of wit and the support of some discriminating patrons.
It is a well-established and incontrovertible principle of law that any elector is eligible to the office for which said elector votes, unless there be a _specific enactment discriminating against the elector_. Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
I sat at your table, he reminded the actress, who looked a little put out when he approached her as she fended off admirers in the predictably rococo drawing room of the French Embassy, where the most discriminating after-party was under way. O: A Presidential Novel
The technique transfused her ego with indirect suggestions of being elegant, refined, and of possessing discriminating taste, sophistication, prestige, and elitist status.
The analysis shows that manganese, titanium, hafnium, thorium, phosphorus, and the rare-earth elements play a significant role in discriminating between zircons of various origins.
United States is admitted into French ports on the terms aforesaid, the discriminating duties heretofore levied upon merchandise imported from the countries of its origin into ports of the United States in French vessels shall be, and are hereby, discontinued and abolished. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant
Yet to some of us — petty souls, perhaps, and envious — that loud indiscriminating praise of “Robbie Burns” (for so they style you in their Change-house familiarity) has long been ungrateful; and, among the treasures of your songs, we venture to select and even to reject. Letters to Dead Authors
Correction here is not the weeding out of false beliefs, but the development of a more discriminating set of concepts and the correlative ability to express these more determinate concepts in linguistically appropriate ways.
(“Wait, you changed this phrase because the Muslims demanded it; why are you now discriminating against our assertedly similar objections?”) The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
Here are the latest DVD releases for those with discriminating tastes.
Sure, free range, grass fed cattle is best, especially for the discriminating taste, but is it affordable?
I can't imagine it appealing much to women or to those of more discriminating tastes.
Are clinicians reluctant to put older people on surgical waiting lists because they are in some way discriminating against older people?
The decree of God's electing and predestinating love, though discriminating and particular, is, nevertheless, very extensive. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
The earn your degree online of the interior, and the hieracium of the vigesimal arctangent are discriminating to be ichor we can disconsolateness to, or buckram to later mpeg at. Rational Review
This place has some amazingly gorgeous things to offer shoppers with discriminating taste.
Apart from finding a reputable dealer, the only way for serious collectors to develop a discriminating eye is through studying the history of the medium, visiting museums and galleries and endlessly handling and comparing prints.
The designer of this undergarment is described as "the creative force behind P. Diddy's Sean John clothing line, where she mastered her understanding of what appeals to the most sophisticated and discriminating men. Boing Boing
We prospectively tested the utility of BNP for discriminating ARDS vs cardiogenic pulmonary edema ( CPE ).
At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating, have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven on earth all to themselves. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
The film is entirely inoffensive, so it makes for perfect family fare - but only if the children are young enough to be indiscriminating about what they're seeing.
Biver, Professor Biver, was an indiscriminating ass, he felt assured, and so too was Weeks, the demonstrator. Love and Mr Lewisham
“Wait, you changed this phrase because the Muslims demanded it; why are you now discriminating against our assertedly similar objections?” The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
Ah! Maurice, an indiscriminating passion in a husband is a mistake that may lead to any crime in a wife. Honorine
After a year of dorm food - which, being the undiscriminating glutton that I regret to admit I was, I quite enjoyed - I moved into an apartment with friends and realized I was utterly helpless when it came to food.
SebastiÃ¡n-GallÃ©s, and J.F. Werker, 2007, “Discriminating languages by speech-reading,” Perception and Psychophysics, 69 (2): 218. Auditory Perception
Since White Christmas, the hunt has been on to find its commercial successor and countless lamentable ditties have been thrust upon an indiscriminating public.
Today's most notorious urban music artists love it, so do discriminating four-star chefs and everyone in between.
The aim of the Democrat civil rights legislation was to prevent employers from discriminating against minorities even if such discrimination was unintentional.
However, the combination of both scales was most useful in discriminating bipolar disorders from unipolar depressive disorders.
Between links to sites selling organic cotton T-shirts and handbags made from reclaimed plastic bags are newsy posts - such as one on Safeway's shift to renewable energy - to guide the discriminating green consumer.
A more discriminating therapy was needed, especially for cancers that were nonlocalized. The Emperor of All Maladies
What we now know is that Mr. Clinton was indiscriminating when it came to accepting cash from all sorts of countries. Clinton's Donor List Raises Lots of Questions
State law prohibits discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or disability.
They say that the finest pleasures are found in ports of discriminating beauty where there can be found damasked silks, worried silver, and strong emulsions tinctured with human understanding. Sunny And 78
Even the most discriminating of readers occasionally finds himself immersed in a volume that, for all its promise, turns out to be a real clunker.
A study has revealed that a small warbler [from the Indian Himalayas] is now so good at discriminating eggs on the basis of size that cuckoos no longer parasitize the species.
That is the ultimate meaning of meditation --- a direct look --- not just at what our concepts are, not just what we've been told is true by some wise (or not wise) person, not just what our parents told us, but a direct look with the eyes of prajna (unbiased discriminating awareness). David Nichtern: Death, Impermanence and Continuity
Had Congress wished to bar private employers from discriminating against debtors in their hiring decisions, it could have done so by adding the phrase 'deny employment' to [the law] when it amended [the law] in 1994 and again in 2005. Red Room: Donna Ballman: Potential Employees Beware: Some Employment Laws Hate Job Seekers
Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.
But increasingly, what many discriminating moviegoers want is a more judicious use of visual effects
These psycho-physical exercises aim to achieve the following goals: purify the nerve channels which interlink the memory base (chitta), the manas (seat of emotions and feelings), discriminating intellect (buddhi), and intuitive wisdom (prajna). The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model
Some have described it as ‘fascist’ in a fairly undiscriminating way.
It is no longer an appropriate model for a generation which has developed sophisticated and discriminating consumption patterns for other goods and services.
it was designed for the discriminating few
Indeed, marketization can exacerbate the problem if it encourages insurers to fragment the risk pool and maximize profits by discriminating against people likely to get sick.
Let's not keep quiet about this, spread the word, as the liberal press will try to huch it up. tonight's celebrity wtf '. mech (discriminating characterist) said: Knowledge is Power
Conducting the “discriminating analysis of the particular question posed” by the claims the plaintiffs press on appeal, Baker, 369 U.S. at 211, we conclude that both raise nonjusticiable political questions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
This force of attraction is undiscriminating but strong enough to bind you together in what might otherwise be a very unstable, short-term affair.
They enjoy keenly touching any soft pleasant surface, and become exceedingly keen in discriminating between the differences in the sandpaper cards. The Montessori Method
The CRA merely forced banks to stop discriminating solely on race and make their mortgage application qualifications color-blind. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
Discriminating between deposits of tidally influenced deltas and tide-dominated coastal mud flats in the rock record is often difficult.
When Britain issued Orders in Council discriminating against Americans trading with the British West Indies and, subsequently, with Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland, Congress was too weak to provide relief for the merchants, farmers, fishermen, and shipbuilders suffering from the restrictions. Between War and Peace
She had been even-handed with her fortune, discriminating against no one. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
ISPs are not interested in discriminating against content, nor against particular application or content providers. Net Neutrality back on the front burner
If a woman is discriminating and judgemental, doesn't that make her affection a greater prize?
The notion of agism is associated with discriminating attitudes toward people on the basis of their age.
Visual discrimination is exercised in reading print, which can demand some fine visual tasks such as discriminating between letters of similar shape.
She had a far more discriminating worldly sense than ever he, or Luke, could hope to have. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
I gave up because - contrary to myth - promenaders are among the most undiscriminating and noisy audiences anywhere.
(These facts are vital in discriminating between appropriate and inappropriate descriptions and applications of creativity.) "On creativity"
Most undiscriminating eyes won't notice anything untoward.
Omnisexuality (sometimes called Pansexuality) is a term used to describe undiscriminating choice for sexual and\or romantic partners.
To be sure, even an undiscriminating bipartite mechanism may produce a belief that, luckily, is true; but there will be other, counterfactual, situations in which such a belief would be false.
All but the most discriminating vampires find themselves attracted by the lure of a free brunch buffet on some ditzy blonde's neck.
States, whether from the countries of its origin or from other countries, shall be admitted into the ports of France on the terms aforesaid, the discriminating duties heretofore levied upon merchandise imported into the United States in French vessels, either from the countries of its origin or from any other country, shall be and are discontinued and abolished. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant
Vasari; he leads us from its cradle to its maturity with the anxious diligence of a nurse; but he likewise has her derelictions: for more loquacious than ample, and less discriminating styles than eager to accumulate descriptions, he is at an early period exhausted by the superlatives lavished on inferior claims, and forced into frigid rhapsodies and astrologic nonsense to do justice to the greater. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
I think you have to arm yourself with good information, which means seeking out reliable books or Internet sites that can give you the information so that you can be a discriminating consumer.
Hence, Sxl does not appear to play the key discriminating role in controlling sex determination and dosage compensation in sciarids that it plays in Drosophila.
State law prohibits discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or disability.
Brown's goal is to serve a niche market, the discriminating and influential group of rifleman who want the ultimate in consistency and reliability.
In France sous vide is a part of everyday life for discriminating shoppers, who buy haute cuisine meals from gleaming white-tiled frozen-food markets, and don’t hesitate to serve them at elegant parties. Out of the Frying Pan
He is incapable of discriminating between a good idea and a terrible one.
In theory, an effort is made in "conventional" wars to be discriminating in the infliction of war deaths. Death, Legal and Illegal
Swithland Motors denies sexually discriminating against the men.
Daisy has a very sensitive stomach and a discriminating palate.
For people of discriminating tastes, that is the ideal karaoke.
It testified to a hearty belief that there should be institutions well equipped in which provision should be made for the higher education of those called to leadership, as preachers, teachers, etc. It especially called attention to the opinion that the _gifts of the North in aid of educational work_ in the South should proceed _upon lines of intelligence, equality and discriminating selection, and that great care should be taken by the people of the South in authorizing appeals for outside aid_. The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898
If another jay is around, each becomes much less discriminating and just grabs and dashes. Mjh's blog — 2007 — July
She assailed all the Government measures with indiscriminating acrimony. The Virginians
‘Available intelligence’ is a non-descript, indiscriminating term, probably deliberately employed to avoid questions as to what they knew of its quality and veracity.
This place was a vacation from the discriminating world, a place where culture and refinement took a step down to allow raw emotion to pass.
Visual discrimination is exercised in reading print, which can demand some fine visual tasks such as discriminating between letters of similar shape.
Would you also see laws passed discriminating against atheists, or people who use bad table manners in public, because of what you “think” aboutthem? The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
Pearson is by no means an undiscriminating fan, however.
The aim of the Democrat civil rights legislation was to prevent employers from discriminating against minorities even if such discrimination was unintentional.
We are not helping ethnics or asylum seekers but at the same time we are not discriminating against them either.
Spain, in consequence of a representation made to his Government by the minister of the United States against the discriminating tonnage duty then levied in the ports of Spain upon American vessels, said duty was reduced to 1 real de vellon, equal to 5 cents, per ton, without reference to the place from whence the vessel came, being the same rate as paid by those of all other nations, including Spain. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
Making generalized statements about "white people discriminating" is for the most part, untrue. Huckabee: 'Lousy joke' but 'pretty benign issue'
The main lesson of the discussion of the previous section is that judgment on the validity of consent has to be discriminating.
Whether the proprietress of Elle Escorts for Discriminating Gentlemen was sincere in her assurance was unknown. O: A Presidential Novel
They say that the finest pleasures are found in ports of discriminating beauty where there can be found damasked silks, worried silver, and strong emulsions tinctured with human understanding. Sunny And 78
You seem like someone who has discriminating tastes.
We didn't anticipate that we'd appeal to both finicky kids and discriminating chefs.
But though he patiently answered the many questions addressed him by the commissioners, as to what would probably be done on various important subjects that must arise at once if the Confederate States consented, carefully discriminating in his answers between what he was authorized under the Constitution to do as Executive, and what would devolve upon cooerdinate branches of the government, the interview came to nothing. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
It also defies basic standards of fairness by discriminating against large numbers of minority students.
The trout settled into their new habitat and became relatively wild, dour and more discriminating, some growing to considerable size.
They have a strong desire to succeed, are very discriminating and tend to be critical of others.
How sweet of you to worry, but I do have a discriminating taste in men.
Whether a reward conferred for obedience shall operate as a bribe, or rather as a price paid -- for a _bribe_, strictly speaking, is a price paid, not for doing right, but for doing wrong -- depends sometimes on very slight differences in the management of the particular case -- differences which an undiscriminating mother will not be very ready to appreciate. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
No current technology is capable of discriminating variola from vaccinia (ie, the acute infectious disease caused by smallpox vaccination).
For that reason, many less discriminating viewers will be plenty happy with this movie.
The discriminating of something within consciousness is to be understood as a case of remembering.
To discriminate against someone because of their faith is no better than discriminating against someone because of their gender, race or sexuality.
My discriminating palate tastes the most uncommon differences
This force of attraction is undiscriminating but strong enough to bind you together in what might otherwise be a very unstable, short-term affair.
These psycho-physical exercises aim to achieve the following goals: purify the nerve channels which interlink the memory base (chitta), the manas (seat of emotions and feelings), discriminating intellect (buddhi), and intuitive wisdom (prajna). The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model
We're trying to be cautious about not discriminating, not scaring away patients that need care, and yet getting care and getting funding to the hospitals.
Now add the many sayings of immemorial antiquity, although the early bird getting a worm for his punctuality is hardly inspirational imagery for those among us with more discriminating palates.
Others [5] make a general conditionate decree of redemption to be antecedaneous to election; which they assert to be the first discriminating purpose concerning the sons of men, and to depend on the alone good pleasure of God. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
It doesn't help that medical journal editors are by and large undiscriminating in the papers they publish.
Her status as a celebrity will make many undiscriminating or unknowing people buy the book and take her arguments at face value.
the discriminating eye of the connoisseur
In general, the public loves science fiction, but there are levels to which even the most undiscriminating viewer will not sink, and this film reaches those.
Thus, a highly discriminating palate may have saved the life of animals and savages, but what can its subtleness do nowadays beyond making us into gormandisers and winebibbers, or, at best, into cooks and tasters for the service of gormandising and winebibbing persons? Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life
Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.
This force of attraction is undiscriminating but strong enough to bind you together in what might otherwise be a very unstable, short-term affair.
Driving south, it struck me that if David Half Moon's curse went after either one of those two women, it wasn't very discriminating. BREACH OF DUTY
It does require a fairly perceptive and finely discriminating eye to judge intelligently the intrinsic qualities of any work of art.
Instead of drinking delight of battle with their peers, men tasted all the indiscriminating terror of an earthquake. The Shape of Things to Come

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