Sentence examples for a distinct thing from inspiring English sources

A declaration of war is a distinct thing.

Anyone who knows him, or has spent the tiniest modicum of time in his company, knows Matthew McConaughey has a distinct "thing" for the open road, the call of the wild.

The case, Davidson says, has ramifications beyond abortion clinics: "It's funny how when we have cases that involve reproductive rights in one way or the other, there's a tendency to see it as only about that and to forget how it could be applied to other places, because it's such a distinct thing in American culture".

Thus relation does not add a distinct thing to its foundation in reality, even though it is a distinct category.

Socrates' body less the finger is not a distinct thing, let alone a man, since it is a part of Socrates.

He comments that either essence is really identical with existence and differs from it (1) only conceptually or (2) intentionally, or else (3) existence is a distinct thing, i.e., the act of the essence and really distinct from it (PB 2.60).

A concrescence of prehensions, then, is a growing together of processes of becoming that allows some relations to function as a unified, distinct thing, or "actual entity".

It's quite possible that starlight also plays a part in the woods' weird monochromatic brilliance, which has a powerfully camouflaging effect, in that every usually distinct thing — each plant and rock and patch of open ground — appears in a common uniform of sheen and shadow.

It goes some way towards eroding the notion that there is any such distinct thing as "black" or "white" or that people of mixed racial heritage have a particular caramel coloured skin tone and can readily be identified as mixed.

No distinct thing or kind of thing is deemed 'the world'.

I think the idea of social bookmarking as this distinct thing apart from the services that we have gathered around us, is going to disappear.