"There is not a clear distinction between them and pets".
Today Dr. Al-Kidwa drew a distinction between authorizing a force and actually trying to put it in place, which would obviously need Israeli cooperation.
Not only does it grant rights to immigrants that are restricted at the federal level, but it also tends to blur the distinction between citizens, authorized, and unauthorized immigrants — valuing everyone who lives in the state and contributes to society.
The difference between the extent of the power which the state may exert over the doing of business within the state by an individual and that which it can exercise as to corporations furnishes a distinction authorizing a classification between the two.
"I was concerned that the distinction between a legally authorized program as our enhanced interrogation program was, and illegal activity by a bunch of psychopaths, would not be made," Rodriguez told 60 Minutes.
This is a clear case of distinguishing between the articles protected by the Constitution of the United States and those which were not, though nothing in the language of the statute authorized any such distinction.
15 By taking this shorter step the Court could have adhered to the fundamental distinction between a search that a magistrate could authorize because it is based on probable cause and one that is not so justified under that standard.
The Security Council resolution that authorized a no-fly zone and other steps in Libya makes no distinction between pro-rebel and pro-Qaddafi civilians.
The government stopped conducting public executions in the early 20th century for much the same reason that it will use lethal injections rather than more brutal technologies to kill Timothy McVeigh -- to reinforce the distinction between a lynching and a soberly considered act of duly authorized justice.
Lieber's code, authorized by Lincoln in April 1863, banned torture and the use of poison gases, and set out a distinction between combatants and civilians that remains enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
The distinction between huckster and savior dissolves.
