Sentence examples for Distinguish from inspiring English sources

They see the mother as responsible for consciously disabling her child, but I assume they distinguish between a mother aborting a foetus and a mother harming a foetus she intends to bring to life.

When children are three or four years old, according to the episode, they can usually distinguish between right and wrong, but continue to, say, take toys or hit others because it feels good.

It suggested that the programme makers were "under instructions from higher up" to make "a happy story about complementary medicine"; that the production could not distinguish evidence from anecdote; even that the series producer was promoting "US-style anti-science".

Outsiders will find little to distinguish between the two parties now promising a progressive alternative to the Conservatives.

A lot of what my reporting has focused on recently is trying to distinguish between the hype and the facts, and how we square up the reality of the actual costs of energy these days and the fact that energy is a lot more expensive.

The program, created by the Justice Department, teaches officers to remain calm and assess their surroundings, reading a dog's body language to distinguish between a scared and dangerous animal.

A handy way to distinguish a government announcement inspired more by politics than its actual policy outcome is when the prime minister's office briefs (some) newspapers about it before it has been considered by the cabinet.

Gilmore says: "One of the challenges in A&E is to distinguish between someone who is simply drunk and someone who has been drinking but also has a serious medical problem.

But no one did it better than King Richard I. In Normandy, Aquitaine and then at the 1191 Battle of Arsuf against Saladin, Richard the Lionheart was always keen to distinguish himself as a warrior-crusader.

Despite giving few details, officials were careful to distinguish the planned shooting from a "terrorist" attack, their characterization of the attack that paralysed Ottawa in October when a troubled man went on a shooting rampage in parliament.

In stories about more than one member of a family, for example where two brothers appear in a court case, first names can be used to distinguish between them.