Sentence examples for a distinct thing to from inspiring English sources

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

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".

You have to think of the synopsis as a distinct thing, separate from the novel or query letter.

A declaration of war is a distinct thing.

Each generation is a distinct thing and should never be bound by the one that came before — and it has this famous line.

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.

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

In other words, as people get used to putting "cell" in front of "phone," they stop thinking of it as a new twist on the familiar phone and start thinking of it as a distinct thing, a cellphone.

When I think of all the decades and millennia before innovation was discovered, as it has been now, as a distinct thing, the mind boggles at all the opportunity lost.

If we remain in Europe, the deeper integration of the continent will mean a pan-European defence force, and a possible end for the British Army as a distinct thing.

To ravish, confusingly, can mean one of two distinct things: to seize someone and carry them off, or to enrapture.