The phrase "a distinctive status" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something or someone that stands out from other things or people. For example, "This new political leader has achieved a distinctive status among his peers."
Yet the formal, rather more expensive N.I.E. has a distinctive status and credibility in Washington.
Still, being surrounded by towns like Wildwood and Atlantic City, where night life and liquor consumption are much more prevalent, Ocean City holds a distinctive status — whose value may be hard to quantify, despite residents' awareness of it.
In those societies chiefly identified with the practice, a person belonged, either from birth or from a determined age, to a named age set that passed through a series of stages, each of which had a distinctive status or social and political role.
94-009 of 26 April 1995 and the Decret 96 168 of 6 March 1996, which provided Antananarivo with a distinctive status.
The idea is that persons as such have a distinctive moral status in virtue of which we have special categorical obligations to regard and treat them in ways that are constrained by certain inviolable limits.
The species category acquires a distinctive biological status instead of a more or less arbitrary assembly of the similar individuals [ 77].
What you do is diminish (finally to nothing) the limiting force of the adjective "academic" and at the same time put all the emphasis on freedom (which should be re-written FREEDOM) until the academy loses its distinctive status and becomes just one more location of a universal moral/political struggle.
The state's distinctive status guaranteed by Article 370, which gives its citizens and government special rights, must be upheld.
Or does the distinctive status of books as markers of knowledge and of reading as an intrinsically virtuous activity, validated in school from the earliest age, come into play?
This is one of the downsides of the European PDO and PGI (protected designation of origin and protected geographic indication) schemes, designed to protect the special, distinctive status of regional foodstuffs.
