The phrase "a different sort as" is not correct in standard written English.
It is unclear and does not convey a complete thought, making it difficult to use effectively in writing.
Example: "She has a different sort as her approach to problem-solving."
Alternatives: "a different kind of" or "a different type of".
There may be moral issues of a different sort as well.
But lately, Portland is facing a housing crisis of a different sort as shelter for the homeless has become anything but discreet.
These days, of course, it bears fruit of a different sort, as the home of tech giants like Apple, Google and Intel.
Today it is an art library, and its form is still an anomaly, but one of a different sort, as taller, more mundane buildings encroach.
Former Representative Bob Franks, fresh from his second straight defeat in a statewide race, is about to embark on a campaign of a different sort, as the chief lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry in New Jersey.
Malala, celebrated for her refusal to be silenced by the Taliban in her championship of girls' education, is about to experience limelight of a different sort as a documentary about her life, He Named Me Malala, is released here.
And there were tears of a different sort at June's Stone Roses Heaton Park reunion, as grown men cried from Madchester nostalgia (and possibly other substances).
But winning carries a different sort of value as well.
Kerik's immortality will, it is now clear, be of a different sort entirely, as he enters the pantheon of celebrated New Yorkers who have been dramatically undone by their own high-handedness or low dealings.
There are many subjects and many themes, and there are some shocking moments, too, but the shock here is of a different sort -- as in "Visit to San Francisco," where the speaker can't pull himself away from a strip club he's visited on two consecutive nights.
The former England and Lions prop, Mike Burton, suffered verbal intimidation of a different sort while playing as a youngster for Gloucester at Aberavon in the 1960s.
