Sentence examples for Upon distinction from inspiring English sources

We dare to suggest that, as long as terminology has not been agreed upon, distinction might be made between sources and processes.

In this context, the two methods are not only inseparably connected to each other, but are also connected to the method of reasoning itself, which is based upon distinctions.

She is also the beginning of separation -- binah is related to the words for knowledge based upon distinctions.

The security for example of the fourth amendment and its protection against unreasonable search and seizure has not rested upon distinctions between trespass and non-trespass for some time.

We think the argument rests upon a distinction without a difference.

An underlying gender bias seems to follow upon this distinction, and the female literary star can seem a rare breed.

Upon achieving distinction as a freshman, Bill was excused from basketball by Dean Smith when the coach discovered that Bill had lost a kidney playing football in high school.

In that insistence, the Antiochian emphasis upon the distinction between the two natures in Christ made itself heard throughout the church.

The famous "Refutation of Idealism" prepared by the meticulous Cambridge philosopher G.E. Moore and a similar refutation by Russell rest upon the distinction between a subject's act of perceiving and the perceptual object of this act, which they both called a "sense datum". They claimed that Berkeley's esse est percipi argument is vitiated by his failure to make this distinction.

The conflict between Alexandria and Antioch came to a head when Nestorius, taking exception to the use of the title "Mother of God" or, more literally, "God-Bearer" (Theotokos) for the Virgin Mary, insisted that she was only "Christ-Bearer". In that insistence, the Antiochian emphasis upon the distinction between the two natures in Christ made itself heard throughout the church.

One pertinent early example is in Conan Doyle's "The Sign of Four", in which Sherlock Holmes reveals to the admiring Dr Watson that he has written several monographs on technical subjects, one of them entitled "Upon the distinction between the ashes of various tobaccos".