Laura Wilson is good on the distinctions of class, accent and vocabulary that divide Calthrop and Stratton.
From that moment, among Republicans, the sheer hunger for victory swamped all distinctions of rank, ideology and geography.
In a story already foaming with distinctions of race and class, would beer be the great equalizer or just another wedge?
He seems to assume that the status distinctions of the Indian Civil Service (an exam-based meritocracy) somehow sprang full-grown from the habit of rewarding Whig landowners with earldoms.
The eight candidates in question have all accumulated prolific statistics and distinctions of honor that would have made enshrinement in the hallowed halls of Cooperstown a mere formality under normal circumstances.
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Dr Irwing told The Times the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like".
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As scientific instruments go, they're highly imperfect: they ignore distinctions of meaning, their counts can be inaccurate, and they're not necessarily representative of the language that people use when they're kicking around political issues with their co-workers or at the breakfast table.
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The public face of Goldman has been to repeat the mantra that the customer comes first, but those in the bonus pool or vying to become a managing director seemed to have mastered a completely different ethos: the cultural distinctions of shrewd, smart, aggressive and hard working more than the ethical distinctions of whether you would sell this product to your mother.
In the Shorter Oxford, disregard of useful distinctions is noted and erosions of meaning are recorded, not bemoaned.
Instead of thinking of one dollar as equivalent to the next, the Luo draw rigorous distinctions between types of money, labeling some money "bitter, " which means that it can be used only in certain ways.
Each of these distinctions is expressed simply as a conjugation of the root word for vision.
In any case, let me offer an example of the distinctions, so you can start thinking about which of these capabilities you have, and which you might need to develop.
But there are a lot of distinctions here that we should talk about.
And yet as digital tools get better and easier to use, the distinctions between all of these things has blurred.
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The Biderman Market Theory has two key distinctions and both of them are bullish for U.S. stocks over the near term.
He said current laws had resulted in "inconsistent, illogical and capricious" distinctions between types of events and regulation should be required only where it was needed to keep events safe.
Lost on them are the distinctions between types of advisors such as Registered Representative and Investment Advisor Representative, between Certified Financial Planner and Certified Financial Analyst, and between firm types such as Broker-Dealer and Registered Investment Advisor.
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Mr Brown said achieving the target had been made more difficult because of the economic climate and because it aimed to "remove the bureaucratic distinctions between different categories of homeless people" and he restated his commitment to this.
One of the odder distinctions within Conservatism is the disagreement about whether it is an ideology at all, worthy of a capital C, or simply a disposition or identity, with a small c, which can tolerate an awful lot of difference.
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There are important distinctions in the kinds of payments made to doctors that the study ignores.
He must convince the Israeli electorate to vote for Likud on the basis of these distinctions.
They made several films together, appeared in Royal Command Performances, and won a string of showbiz distinctions.
At the last two CES shows we saw some pretty obvious distinctions between the approach of active versus passive 3D.
China does more trade with everyone and accepts more investment capital than anyone, having overtaken the USA as the former holder of those distinctions.
In analysing China's economic forays into Europe, it helps to divide them into three categories (even if some of these distinctions are fuzzier in China than elsewhere).
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And such distinctions determine whether the game of football is played within or outside the rules.
The war on drugs drew some of the sharpest distinctions among leaders at the two-day gathering.
The Pritzker committee jury raved about his lifework of defying standard distinctions.
"Interestingly, we're seeing the distinctions between these two kinds of companies and their stocks sort of erode, " says Geoffrey Porges, a biotech analyst at Sanford C.
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