Quoting Paul: «As with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.» (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)
Pell appears to have known little, even of discrete acts, much less of serial acts and their abetting. (firstthings.com)
Although faith might be viewed as a series of broken discrete acts, Bonhoeffer declares that «faith as an act knows itself as the mode of being of its being in the church, the continuity is indeed only «in the believing» but thereby is really preserved as being in the Church. (religion-online.org)