Sentence examples for a distinct stage from inspiring English sources

The juvenile justice system, founded on the idea that childhood is a distinct stage of life, is being dismantled, with more teenagers imprisoned alongside adults.

But "parenthood," the word, dates only to the middle of the nineteenth century, and the notion that parenthood is a distinct stage of life, shared by men and women, is historically in its infancy.

The idea of adolescence as a distinct stage of life emerged only in the early 20th century, and the term "teen-ager" did not enter the popular lexicon (at first hyphenated) until shortly before World War II.

I have learned to view my years in my old house as being in a distinct stage of my life (being a busy professional), and my new home as that for my next stage of life (being retired).

Exploring onset rivalry as a distinct stage in the process of visual competition is important in understanding how the visual system integrates the information received from the two eyes in normal daily vision.

For example, our finding that PAD-mediated citrullination in mammary tissue appears to be restricted to epithelial cells during a distinct stage of the estrous cycle and limited to a small subset of targets (likely histones and nucleophosmin) suggests that PAD activity is likely facilitating a specific event during diestrus.

The amphibian larva represents a morphologically distinct stage between the embryo and adult.

Having dealt with depression for so long, I'd feared the anticipated lows, but they were counterbalanced by the physical changes, slowly but surely modifying my body, beginning a second distinct stage of addressing my lifelong sense of visceral unease.

For public sector applications like salt spreading and road maintenance, this partitioning is a real distinct stage in the organization and planning of services, and as is the case with location, districting is of a non-operational nature.

From 24 to 36 HAI, seed germination entered the third phase, a distinct transition stage in which the metabolic genes were continuously and abundantly expressed.

In this study we use Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) as a model system to rigorously analyse the dynamic transcriptional response to sub-lethal concentrations of three antibiotics (vancomycin, bacitracin and moenomycin A) that target distinct stages of cell wall biosynthesis.