But Sheehan says it's possible to make a distinction between the quality of a piece of science and the ethics of how it was obtained.
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This year, the market will make a distinction between companies - those that have been successful at restructuring and those in sectors going through reform.
To avoid that dangerous route, we need to make a distinction between the nuclear ambitions of the Islamic Republic and the growing civil rights movement in Iran.
Besides, argues Ashcroft, voters do make a distinction between, say, restraining the growth of the federal bureaucracy and providing a helping hand to workers in an insecure economy.
"The authorities should make a distinction between cases of alleged irregularity, and of fraud, " says Narongchai Akrasenee, former president of General Finance, who faces a charge linked with his now-closed institution.
Obama also seemed to make a distinction between good tax increases and bad ones, saying that these tax increases would not serve a meaningful purpose like deficit reduction or infrastructure spending.
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And like Obama's campaign-trail statement, Clinton's diatribe, Sarkozy and Obama's vile gossip about Netanyahu and Britain's self-congratulatory declarations and veiled threats, those who make a distinction between the Israeli people and the Israeli government ignore two important facts.
The fact that Dahlan was in possession of Toledano's ID raises the question of Fatah's involvement in his kidnap and murder and casts a pall over the entire attempt by Israel and the West to make a distinction between Hamas and Fatah terrorists.
Look, the kitchen table I grew up in Claymont, Delaware, no one sat around and was able to make a distinction between, if that existed at the time, between bailing out the banks, TARP, between a funding program that was designed called the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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His refusal to make a moral distinction between the mullahs and their democratic opponents - like his refusal in Cairo to make a moral distinction between a nuclear-armed Iran and a nuclear-armed America - makes clear that he is not interested in forging a factually accurate or morally clear-sighted foreign policy.
While Secretary Mosbacher has subsequently sought to make a distinction between a state-of-the-art fiber optic capability (which he says he would oppose selling the Soviet Union on national security grounds) and an older version (which he evidently believes would not cause similar problems), in fact this is a distinction without a difference.
Would that our liberal commentariat could make a similar distinction between a conservative and a terrorist.
Both Cohen and Schaumberg also make a clear distinction between guilt and shame - a trait linked to low self-esteem.
If you are lucky, the REIT you are interested in will make a careful distinction between maintenance-type cap ex and the other kind--purchasing new properties.
Do you think that you've failed to make a communications distinction between the two and that's one of the problems you face as people try to decide whether this was good for them or not?
The committee's general recommendations involved requiring professors at all universities to make a distinction in their classrooms between facts and their political opinions.
Last night on the ABC special, the President did make it a point to draw a distinction between taxing all health insurance benefits versus taxing the Cadillac portions of health insurance benefits, while he maintained that it's still not his choice.
We have a very important distinction to make between this case and Exxon Valdez.
It is just one example of a government that cannot make the moral distinction between firefighter and fire.
The concept of lookalike audiences, problematic as it is, is a useful tool to use to make the distinction between the twin aspects of Facebook.
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Ahmadinejad means to make certain that to the extent a distinction is made between Iran's nuclear weapons program and Israel's purported nuclear arsenal, the distinction will claim that whereas Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal needs to be destroyed, Iran's interest in nuclear weapons is a justified response to Israeli badness.
This blurring of the distinction between private and public equity markets might make sense if a publicly quoted firm proved to be the best vehicle for providing venture capital.
And since some of Mr Sadr's followers do not make much distinction between takfiris and mainstream Sunnis, this set the scene for a new round of revenge killings.
In their paper an advance treatment for a more in-depth book on the reinvention of state capitalism due out next year Musacchio and Lazzarini make the distinction between companies that are majority-owned by government, and those in which the government has a minority position, a situation that has become increasingly more common over the past few decades.
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