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The phrase "a hard distinction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a clear and firm separation between two concepts, categories, or ideas.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, some argue that there is a hard distinction between natural variability and human-induced factors."
Alternatives: "a clear distinction" or "a strict separation".
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"For people, that's a hard distinction.
That is a hard distinction to sustain.
I have to say it was a hard distinction to make for people.
This was always going to be a hard distinction to maintain, given Mr Gonzales's role in crafting the policies he was being asked to evaluate as attorney-general.
When Luntz talks about "the war," he does not draw a hard distinction between the quagmire in Iraq and Bush's war on terror, and this is one of the differences that now sharply separate the two parties in Washington.
Considering topics as diverse as My Lai, honor killings, and mother-infant bonding in rhesus monkeys, Sapolsky argues against a hard distinction between psychology and biology: "Brains and cultures coevolve".
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Increasingly, that is a harder distinction for outsiders to make.
It is a unique contribution to the understanding of the relation between religion and secularism in India a splendid achievement". "This ethnographically rich and analytically astute book examines how secularism, rather than separating law from religion, unsettles any hard distinction between those two domains.
Ives said, "That is a very hard distinction to make, but it was instantly there".
Pieper believes the hard distinction between fiction and nonfiction is overrated anyway: "A recent development made by a modern marketing apparatus," he argues.
The most common view of the body in twentieth century biology was derived from a Weismannian understanding of it as "a causal dead end" (Griesemer, 2002) that saw causation going unidirectionally from genotype to phenotype (otherwise referred to as the hard distinction between soma and germ line).
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