Sentence examples for a distinctive class from inspiring English sources

One kind of modal realism holds that there is a distinctive class of truths essentially involving the modal notions of necessity and possibility.

The cover of sedimentary rocks, which have been little changed since they were deposited, contains numerous strata of limestone, and within the limestones near the bottom of the pile is found a distinctive class of mineral deposit.

They form a distinctive class due to their narrow licensing conditions in that they appear in antiveridical or antimorphic contexts (Giannakidou 2011).

Physically or mentally ill people, even if they are seen as norm-breakers, are seen as a distinctive class of norm-breakers.

Lewis (1986, 2002) endorses views on which qualitative properties supervene upon or are appropriately definable in terms of a distinctive class of "perfectly natural properties".

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half-billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red-giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

There is a superficial structural resemblance to foldback TEs, a distinctive category of Class II TEs first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster [32] and later found in a wide variety of organisms.

We observed no correlation between biotin intensity and the probability of that vesicle not containing transferrin, arguing against the possibility of a morphologically distinctive class of transferrin-negative endocytic vesicle.

Mr. Neff, he said, through a peculiar confluence of skills and singlemindedness, has joined a small but distinctive class of artists who, in isolation, have created works that resonate with a broader audience.

Many upperclass students and alumni wear a large, heavy, distinctive class ring known as the "Brass Rat".

In my view, probably the most important finding from our research is the existence of a distinctive "elite" class.