Today, indeed, it's the organisation's leadership itself that is brought to task, when a motion proposing the government stop distinguishing between healthcare and social care is kicked back by members after being deemed by many to be poorly framed.
It doesn't... JUSTICE SCALIA: Is that a principal basis for distinguishing this from other situations?
In fact, Churchill here was distinguishing such an "inexactitude" from a lie, in much the same way as the former cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, told an Australian court that in its handling of the Spycatcher case the government had been "economical with the truth".
It outsources the time-consuming job of distinguishing tin roofs from thatch to a web service called "Mechanical Turk", which breaks big jobs into small parts and assigns them to jobbing freelances around the world.
JAPANESE culture places great stress on distinguishing the honne, one's genuine feelings, from the tatemae, what one must say publicly.
As Mr MacAskill explains, this is basically useless: In a pool of thousands of companies, inevitably some are going to end up highly successful purely through luck and by looking just at performance, you've got no way of distinguishing luck and solid business strategy.
With only his patient's word to go on, a doctor's chances of distinguishing a malingerer from somebody with a real psychological illness are slim.
Distinguishing between the two, of course, is virtually impossible.
Nor is a biocatalyst always the best available technology: competing chemical technology must always be evaluated alongside it.Screening (ie, distinguishing useful catalysts from uninteresting ones, or the best of a good crop) is a critical part of discovery.
Simpler, flat-rate pricing, he argues, is likely to increase usage: discrimination would turn some users away.Indeed, he says, distinguishing between different types of traffic would mean so much technical rejigging that the openness of the internet would be destroyed.
Yet blenders and consumers have no means of distinguishing good biofuel from bad.Biofuels from poor but sunny countries, where crops yield much more energy and costs are lower, tend to be both cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
