Indeed, it may be hard for most people to distinguish a shallow recession from lacklustre growth.

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Defence lawyer Pascal Rouiller feared it would be hard for the jurors to distinguish between all those on trial.

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If Mr Bush makes a strong push for reform before November, it will be tough for Mr Kerry to distinguish himself on intelligence issues.

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For instance, it should be possible to distinguish an insurgency with a rigid command structure from a group of smaller, randomly linked units.

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Clearcast, the company which approves TV adverts for broadcasts, said they believed viewers would be able to distinguish between weapons in a fantasy setting and the reality of urban gun crime.

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For languages, the explanation may be a cultural rather than biological need to distinguish populations.

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Users need to be able to distinguish when a problem is with windows, pc manufacturers, and party responsible for drivers.

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It's not unusual for a device to be sold under a couple of different names for the purposes of carrier branding, or to distinguish a global GSM model from its US bound LTE sibling.

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This sounds sensible enough, but introducing systems that distinguish between temporary and permanent migrants, or anyone else for that matter, will not be easy to implement.

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