The Data Protection Act distinguishes between "anonymous data" and data that identifies an individual.
Every year a few acts distinguish themselves, earning that invaluable commodity known as "buzz," an elusive combination of music industry gossip and fan chatter, without which albums are not sold and stars are not born.
Acts are distinguished between behavioural acts, which are directly observable, and conscious acts, which can be inferred from what interactants say and do.
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known colloquially as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV) which introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
Austin's interest in the types of act so distinguished was "…essentially to fasten on the second, illocutionary act and contrast it with the other two…" (1962b: 1962b
Within speech acts, Austin distinguished among locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary levels, but speech act theory has been devoted almost exclusively to the illocutionary level, so that 'speech act' and 'illocutionary act' are in practice synonymous terms.
Cognitive acts are distinguished by type of thinking: knowledge (knowing/remembering), choice, reasoning or conception.
Perceptive acts are distinguished by sense: visual perception, verbal reception, or visual/verbal attention.
For instance, Hillel Steiner claims that "evil acts are distinguished from ordinary wrongs through the presence of an extra quality that is completely absent in the performance of ordinary wrongs" (Steiner 2002, 184).
According to the Mohists, the ends for which we act may be distinguished as shi (right) or fei (wrong) in two ways, either "directly" or by "weighing" (EC8).
