How To Use Perceive In A Sentence

I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
Yet countries perceived as our enemies nurture their computer geeks in the full knowledge that they are the future. Times, Sunday Times
He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
Windsor and colleagues have referred to these as service demands or wants or as perceived or felt needs. An Introduction to Community Health
He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes

Arriving at the confluence with the Columbia, of the river whose banks they were following, they perceived that it was the same which had been called _Lewis river_, by the American captain of that name, in Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
Alternative ideology becomes a means of imbuing both self and community with an element of the mythic, and validating perceived limitations and shortcomings while sacralizing the mundane.
The beauty he has perceived must in accordance with our human needs find expression concretely, because it is only as he manifests himself in forms which we can understand that we are able to recognize him. The Enjoyment of Art
We can perceive Lu Xun's authentic attitude to Tao Yuanming's reclusion from his high estimation of Tao Yuan ming.
Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
To minimize how this price is perceived, the self-defeating organization can avail itself of any of the techniques described here.
Products may also be different for less tangible reasons, such as perceived quality enhanced by brand names or advertising slogans. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
It would appear that they formed in order to capitalise on certain perceived economic benefits.
Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time.
The result of any fruitful worldview is a firm, self-confident life order that is perceived as necessary, as a reality, about which there is nothing uncertain or disputable.
What he has to accept is that this is not how he was widely perceived on arrival. Times, Sunday Times
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill.
But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
I perceived a change in his behaviour/that his behaviour had changed.
The rest of us have an emotive connection to an act we perceive as wrong - usually guilt but occasionally anger or upset.
In my mind, I have a picture of the people I perceive to be acting in perpetuance of these misdirections. Peace, order and good government, eh?: May 2006 Archives
The thief was perceived to steal into the house.
Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested.
He further asked: “‘Clear me of unperceived guilt’ [ibid.; i.e., of the sins I committed secretly, unperceived by others].” Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah.
Therefore, they perceived themselves as corporate members and experienced its power as essentially benevolent.
Sortals are entirely formed by our minds, in the light of the properties perceived to be in the world. Substance
Fourthly, reference has already been made to the need for cooperation to be perceived as beneficial.
For the cordwainer, a family to feed and educate in the domestic realm was as vital a component of the performance of his manly workplace duties as a hammer and a leather apron. 14 There was no perceived separation between his duties stitching leather and his duties feeding and educating his family. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
Private investigators have traditionally been perceived as shadowy and devious.
Suddenly I perceived him as Dutiful did, and realized that the Prince's abhorrence went past the man's physical deformity and mental limits. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
No one perceived themself to be in a position to hire such a man.
The General's words were perceived as a threat by neighbouring countries.
We can think simultaneously of opposites (e.g. existence and nonexistence, round and angular), and these opposites must be simultaneously present in our consciousness, for otherwise we could not compare them, nor perceive and declare their oppositeness. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Emotionally expressive individuals are perceived as more visible, more attractive, and more likeable than unexpressive individuals.
This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care.
Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period.
Do you think that Hume wanted a general theory of human nature to explain why human beings act, think, perceive and feel in all of the ways that we do?
Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.
This intentional manipulation by the author, perhaps already let the readers nebulously perceive a remote Utopia upon seeing the chirping swallows.
During the 1976-83 period, operations included the assassination of police informers and perceived quislings, bank robberies and attacks on the security forces and police stations.
The sexual sweat, but not the normal sweat, activated the right orbitofrontal cortex and the right fusiform cortex, brain areas that help us recognize emotions and perceive things, respectively.
Probably I should not have troubled myself to do so, had I been full in front; but I observed that she immediately began to slip her books into her cabas again; and, presently, after I had returned to the estrade, while I was arranging the mass of compositions, I heard the folding-door again open and close; and, on looking up, I perceived her place vacant. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
They then rated the unpleasantness of the intrusive thought, their attempts to dismiss the thought from consciousness, and their perceived success in reducing the frequency of the thought.
Therefore, they resisted what they perceived as American extremes of rationalism and indifferentism, precisely as did their Protestant and Catholic colleagues.
ISIS argues that among the biggest threats posed by Pyongyang's perceived advancement in uranium-enrichment is the North's historical willingness to export its nuclear technologies. U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January
Kidd makes much of a Miltonic allusion that he perceives in "woful" as spoken by Buck Mulligan. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
All the while, resentment is building up in the hearts and minds of the majority who, rightly or wrongly, perceive that the gurriers are laughing at them and thumbing their noses at the law.
Thus statutory removal of children was perceived as exceptional, and good practice aimed at minimizing it.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
He uses the term polyarchy to refer to societies in which there exists a certain set of institutions and procedures which are perceived as leading to such democracy. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
The figures might go up but no one will know for sure if it is a real increase or a perceived increase.
The NHS in the UK imports doctors from other countries in order to redress the perceived shortage of doctors in this country.
Most are there for aesthetic value in an attempt to raise the product's perceived value.
His teachers perceived him as shy and introverted.
This is a particularly fascinating example, and if we think it through we can perceive that the preconception belies the reality.
The value of a person's stock market portfolio is not inconsequent; there's a perceived feeling of wealth," says Mr. Pringuet. Spirits Brighten at Debt-Heavy Pernod Ricard
Drug dealing was perceived to be the biggest problem by around 10 per cent of both groups who completed the questionnaire.
Voters appreciate some interest from candidates on environmental issues, but they are wary of candidates who are perceived as being too narrowly focused on environmentalism.
The underlying field/space is universal (absolute on some level) whereas the particular, individuated processing dynamic determines how such space is perceived as having relative locality and temporality. A Materialist Red Herring
As one researcher writes in a study on moods and menstruation in college students, 'negative behavior exhibited premenstrually is perceived as evidence for the prevailing negative stereotype of female emotional behavior while positive behavior is ignored as something for which biology is irrelevant.' PMS
Thus educational policy was oriented both to perceived economic needs, and to broader social goals of equality of opportunity.
Teddy Roosevelt endorsed an effort to remove spellings that many Americans perceived to be cumbersome and illogical from the English language as used in America. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Interestingly, the smaller the company, the more likely employees were to perceive these benefits.
Even more than the treatment of pregnant women, the field of obstetrics was perceived as an exclusively female medical trade, practiced by women trained generally in oral traditions of midwifery. 90 The midwife was responsible for preparing the parturient woman and alleviating the pain and discomfort of the birthing process. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
His acceptance speech, made on the following evening, was well delivered but generally perceived as lacking in detail.
Whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us.
Leicester inhabits the world of the policy wonk, the person who provides the meat of politics, while staying out of the soap opera of characters which dominate the way politics is often perceived through the media.
Higher plants have evolved a complex photoreceptive system involving distinct families of photoreceptors to perceive light signals.
Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
He perceived that the Liberal ministry had offended certain influential sections by appearing too demiss or too unenterprising in foreign affairs. Archaism.
Unlike the six exteroceptive senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing, and balance) by which we perceive the outside world, and interoceptive senses, by which we perceive the pain and movement of internal organs, proprioception is a third distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. UUpdates - All updates
'There's a general emotional difference between men and women as they perceive and take risks,' said Jennifer Lerner, a psychologist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In these early days, the gramophone was considered to be little more than a toy, and the ‘great artists’ of the time did not want to condescend to its perceived level to make recordings.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. Michael Jordan
She is perceived as vain, spoilt and promiscuous.
However, a much stronger negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and the perceived adequacy of social relationships.
Can you really take two companies that are perceived as the slow-moving players in the online market, combine them, and make it an "accelerant," to your business, as you described it? Ballmer Makes Big Bet
And among other things the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the balconies till they were some of them burned and fell down.
The excessive user of alcohol or drugs may not perceive his or her true state.
I would prefer that we owned our own identity and that we weren't perceived by the players and public as a feeder team to the greater cause.
Not only does the technique have potential in the perfume industry, but it may provide clues about how we perceive smells.
He has received more opportunities this season and is back scoring tries but still, King has gone for his perceived failure to find that offensive spark. Times, Sunday Times
We shall dissect," said Mielwis, and by means unperceived by Charlie Johns, he caused the chart to change: blip! Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
Noise, perceived control, perceived freshness and misunderstanding all discussed as possible causes for the apparent disjunction.
Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here.
If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
They revel in every perceived injustice, and are desperate to have someone to blame.
It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
Khan says the way the U.S. can protect itself is to back a credible leadership in Pakistan, which is not perceived to be what he calls a "stooge. News
Their paintings were executed to be perceived as living art, and it is that dimension of their self-aware contemporaneity that still conveys a certain excitement.
Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist. Becoming Enlightened
Second is that the nature of this homocentric military regime is that the low-ranking bureaucrats, as well as middle-ranking bureaucrats and also all the way to the top, they do not perceive themselves as having the capacity and authority to make decision even to let those visas position quickly possible. CNN Transcript May 7, 2008
Despite continuing lax enforcement, concern rose at the end of the century, in response to a perceived increase in the consumption of whisky.
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you. Douglas Adams
Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.
Noone here is judging anything by any sort of objective standard and the attitude of all the "RJ-dislikers" here, including Adam, is pronouncedly personal and not in any way elevated above some perceived "commoner". Jordanian hiatus
Furthermore, it is perceived to have an educative and symbolic function as well as a practical one.
The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous.
However, it should be noted, rating of perceived exertion cannot be used to monitor training intensity, without educating the swimmers beforehand.
To perceive this work as a subterfuge to secure funding for political purposes is ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
The goal of this study was to examine how children in the early and middle childhood periods perceive social withdrawal.
Or whether mutually to reinforce their ability to perceive and understand this city - two viewpoints yielding a stereoscopic perspective.
- She perceives me to be of ophidian sentiment, I will bathe with her. THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems
I looked steadfastly at him, and perceived that this eyes looked dull and glazed.
Ezra Klein perceives himself as a benevolent and educated individual. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The easiest and best time to get this money from your banker is when you are still perceived as a creditworthy employee.
He wanted to create a thoroughgoing change in the way ordinary people perceived prostitution.
You don't want it to be perceived as filler - and a lot of infomercials are perceived as filler.
Was that a surprise to you how people perceived it, what they glommed on to or what they didn't?
Windsor and colleagues have referred to these as service demands or wants or as perceived or felt needs. An Introduction to Community Health
Thus, we can perceive the sound emitted by a piccolo but not that from a dog whistle.
A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.
But it does tell you that our country is widely perceived as the softest touch in the world. The Sun
However, last-borns perceived themselves as more agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than their siblings perceived them.
White Americans saw an even steeper decline in antiblack bias: to 3.6 in the 2000s from 9.1 in the '50s, but they perceived antiwhite bias shooting up to 4.7 from 1.8 in that period. Week in Ideas
They perceived a stranger wandering in the garden.
There was anger and immediate condemnation from all parties save Euskal Herritarok, perceived as the separatist group's political wing.
Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
A new liberty will arise, so the monitory promise goes, not in any freedom from constraints too subtle for the hungry to perceive, but in class consciousness.
Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence.
The drive against political correctness includes plans to revise the curriculum for primary and secondary pupils to correct a perceived bias towards left-wing thinking. Times, Sunday Times
One can perceive corruption in the act of an officeholder only against a background of a "correct" pattern of behavior, a background which must exist in the beliefs of the perceiver. The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
BofA-Merrill expects Latin American equities are to return 27% in local currency in 2011, thanks in large part to expectations that earnings will grow considerably 26% in U.S. dollar terms, anchored by domestic growth engines positioned to benefit from higher commodity prices, and low perceived macro risk given that countries, companies and households are underleveraged. Forget China, Look To Latin America
Major transformations within medical discourse provided the theoretical conditions for this perceived advance.
Sally wasn’t the person Mariah would have picked for her daughter’s friend, but watching Lindsay apply the Thomas theorem, matching an opponent’s wit and endurance often resulted in a desired friendship, was ethnomethodology, a theory Mariah respected, because instead of accepting a perceived reality as already being out there, it showed that you could create and live your own reality. The Owl and Moon Cafe
Other topical therapies new to the anti-aging scene include plant kinins which appear to have both anti-irritant and photoaging reversal properties with no perceived irritation.
The General's words were perceived as a threat by neighbouring countries.
Some aloeswood perhaps peaks at the end, but again it does not feel authentic - it has that sweet berry note that seems to be the way agarwood is perceived nowadays ever since M7. Archive 2009-05-01
Babies are weak and vulnerable in the presence of huge shapes that they can only dimly perceive.
It seems that the source of Herman's queasiness is rooted in concerns about the property market in Southern Europe, many having holiday homes in the Med; growing commentary on the decline of Southern Europe's economies; a growing crescendo of remarks from Southern Eurpean politicians that are perceived as threatening the independence of the European Central Bank, a sine qua non for Germans to give up the Deutschmark; and a sudden ramping up of German inflation to an official 8.1% (which, if our own experience is anything to go by significantly underplays the reality). Archive 2008-06-08
In order to perceive the smell of a grapefruit, our sense of smell only requires just two molecules, the chemical eye needs hundreds if not thousands to stick to its gold chips.
If you read him with attention, Williams will expand your mind, will set it on things wondrous and permanent, will make the world you live in deepen because of the new-perceived order. The Image of the City « Unknowing
It was the medium through which he perceived his own soul, the formula through which he could confirm his own existence.
Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
By the letter of the judges of the circuit court of the United States, held at Boston in June last, and the inclosed application of the underkeeper of the jail at that place, of which copies are herewith transmitted, Congress will perceive the necessity of making a suitable provision for the maintenance of prisoners committed to the jails of the several States under the authority of the United States. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
The legitimacy of local government structures was measured according to their perceived fairness, effectiveness, transparency, strength and honourability, said the HSRC. ANC Daily News Briefing
In both groups one quarter perceived it to be caused by a medical condition, particularly more older male sufferers.
Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader.
While students experience Dutch society's acceptance of varying sexualities, they also find out that the Netherlands is not always the tolerant Utopia it is perceived by many to be.
The fact that this was perceived by the Telegraph to be unsayable merely makes Steyn's point for him.
The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror.
While Emily kept her eyes fixed on the spot, she saw the door move, and then slowly open, and perceived something enter the room, but the extreme duskiness prevented her distinguishing what it was. The Mysteries of Udolpho
In short, the only way to really eliminate conflict of interest, whether real or perceived, is to rely on a group of enthusiasts. Wine Advocate Writers Spark Ethics Debate - Wall Street Journal | Dr Vino's wine blog
Until we arrive at them, we perceive only a few torches to lighten the darkness, such as the era of Nabonassar, the war between Lacedæmon and Messene; even those epochs themselves are subjects of dispute. A Philosophical Dictionary
The students perceived that his behavior had changed.
The suggestibility of and ease with which young children can be ‘coached’ has created an environment where children are often perceived as unreliable in their testimony.
The term Doug wanted was "misperception," something wrongly perceived. Thestar.com - Home Page
Then there are actors who are haunted by what they perceive as the trivial and inconsequential nature of their work.
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
The industrial bias of canal building can be readily perceived by looking at Figure 7.3.
The clock strikes midnight and suddenly they are no longer perceived to be beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
While it is well recognized that a rhythm does not consist necessarily of sound sensations, the 'rhythmization' of a series of sound sensations in the ordinary perceived rhythms is a matter of great interest. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
What politician is going to call what the public perceives to be a well-meaning group of tragedy-stricken widows a gang of frauds and liars?
Nevertheless, this research strongly supports the claim that human subjects auditorily perceive such spatial characteristics as direction and distance. Auditory Perception
Such a crude lie can surely be perceived by that genius of the animal kingdom, humans.
What replaces it will be more responsive to society's wants, if not its perceived needs. Times, Sunday Times
Allowing perceived slights to grow into mountainous outrage means the gulfs will widen and individuals will reach a point where there is no going back and, therefore, no going forward.
Conscious through close observation of nature of changing patterns in the landscape, especially at sunrise and sunset, he found a beauty that was atmospheric and objectively perceived as well as poetic and idealized.
Aeneas perceived before him a spacious valley.
The reactions are typical for the perceived losers of a so-called by-election in South Korea, one held to fill vacant seats. Korea's Lee Mulls Shake Up After Election
Possibly not, if women simply assume the roles and past perspectives of men, if they perceive themselves as slaves to work, or if a woman's career is to be nothing but a guilt trip.
The previously undomesticated boy quickly realizes that half-measures like hastily buying his little cousin a pre-packaged lunch at a convenience store on the way to kindergarten can have traumatic consequences in a milieu where bringing in an amateurish or non-homemade bento is perceived as a symptom of a shamefully inadequate family. Daddies dearest
For my own part, however, I cannot but wonder, since he had divined and predicted that heterogeneous matter could be discharged by the course he indicates, why he could not or would not perceive, and inform us that, in the natural state of things, the blood might be commodiously transferred from the lungs to the left ventricle of the heart by the very same route. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
She did not perceive herself as disabled.
However, for us our own branding has been an issue as people perceive us as a data company, so we have to work hard to get out the message about our voice and converged abilities.
I perceive a coaxing sound in that soft strain of yours.
They identified three brain regions in which grey matter density was greatest in those with the most Facebook friends, but was not linked to the number of real-world friends they had: the superior temporal sulcus and the middle temporal gyrus, which have previously been associated with the ability to perceive social cues from facial expressions, and the entorhinal cortex, which is linked to memory for things like faces and names. Facebook friend tally is associated with differences in brain structure
We can obviously say nothing immediate about how the central sense-excitations would be sensed independently of the latter; thus Weber's Law, too, concerns only apperceived sensations, and therefore can just as well have its basis in the processes of the apperceptive comparison of sensation as in the original constitution of the central sensory excitations. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
Rather like the judgements of force, the proprioceptive mechanisms that determine the perceived timing of muscle contractions have both a ‘peripheral’ and a ‘central’ component.
Nurses also may not report other nurses for fear of being perceived as snitches or labeled as whistle-blowers.
As a check, ask yourself, "How would my choice of clothing be perceived by my Heavenly Parents..by my earthly parents...by someone with unchecked lustful thoughts. Growing Up - Learning Modesty in Dress
The outrageous character of the law was too palpable to be unperceived and unresented. The Nation in a Nutshell
All distress, annoyance, frustration, vexation and so on is a reaction to things perceived through the senses, usually of sight or hearing.
Nor did they continue to deploy the full panoply of radical techniques in moments of perceived social and political crisis.
It's easy to be perceived as unprofessional based on the casualness of one's attire.
It is widely perceived as a women's health problem, but it does also affect men.
This discrepancy may result in a mismatch between perceived and actual diet and thus lead to overrepresentation of patients in the action and maintenance stages.
The EU influence is widely perceived to be anathema to that, and as being in hock to big business. Times, Sunday Times
This is how we imagine objects.6The spirit cannot be reduced to biological components, be they bioplasm, microvita or even etheric energy--which is not to say that spirit cannot manifest in forms perceived in this way. Right brain thinking.
Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader.
Nature was perceived to be full of devas and the human being still strongly connected to the world of spirit.
The stripped-down band of guitars, bass and percussion creates a beautiful simplicity in direct contrast to what is perceived as Latin music today.
Ultimately, anagogically, linear time ceases to hold sway and the prophetic soul perceives past, present and future as one.
If they perceive that a military challenge threatens their country's interests, they will not hesitate to fight.
Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child.
One might disagree with his conclusions, but to perceive those differences -- as some here seem to do -- as a simple division between good (themselves and their views) and evil (the views of a man like Brzezinski) is to raise a serious issue: sometimes I wonder how much some people on the left understand about what kind of place the intersocietal system has been over the centuries and the millennia. Disagreement about Zbig: Acknowledging the Problem of Power
Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
What once looked like a funny stunt now could quite easily be perceived as a cruel joke on a sick senior.
They are still widely perceived as a rabble, and as such cannot possibly obtain funding or be taken seriously by the political class '. Times, Sunday Times
It was perceived that they were the African women who could carry a fetus to full term.
However, the political attackers may be unreceptive to the views of the legal profession, as it is likely to be perceived that any rejoinders are made in self-interest or with an ulterior motive.
In the climacteric fruit tomato, ethylene is perceived by a family of six receptor proteins.
Conversely, the rationale for starting cattle on a diet with less roughage and more concentrate is based on the perceived improvement in performance and, thereby, increased profitability.
We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies.
While Christian revenge for perceived Jewish deicide never materialized, I can't say the existential fear truly fizzled. Josh Fleet: The J-Word: Why Jesus Is Taboo In Polite Jewish Conversation
American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous. Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
Other nations, especially developing countries, have taken tough stands against what they perceive as separatist forces.

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