Sentence examples for called a distinction from inspiring English sources

Isn't that what's called a distinction without a difference?

I think that's what's called a distinction without a difference.

The distinguished 20th-century linguist Otto Jespersen believed that the loss of the SPPP was rather a good thing, noting that English was the only European language to get rid of what he called a "useless distinction".

I now wish to track down other books by this author who EM Forster called "A novelist of distinction and originality".

In an interview last week Mr. Dukakis called that a "distinction without a difference". He said that "premeditated murder is premeditated murder," adding that 23 states permit people convicted of first-degree murder to participate in furlough programs.

"The Wine Whisperer" refers to Rimmerman's conviction that he, along with his partner and their 6-year-old daughter, all have superhuman tasting powers that may or may not qualify them as what are called "supertasters," a distinction thought to have a legitimate anatomical basis.

In drafting the new policy, Mr. Bush's aides have eliminated the distinction between a "national" missile defense and defenses to aid allies, which the new policy calls an "artificial distinction".

That it becomes a protracted crisis where NGOs still have to call for a distinction between their activities and political action because they are targeted, and where the population is held hostage by armed groups and a lack of interest from the international community.

Therefore, Xing (2006) calls for a distinction between Mandarin grammar and pedagogical grammar of Mandarin in the field of teaching Mandarin as a foreign language.

Presuming that to be the case, one could argue that where our being created male and female is concerned, the passage in Genesis allows, and even implicitly calls for a distinction to be made between our outer appearance and our inner essence, between the part of us that's of this earth (the body) and the part that's from God or bears God's mark (the spirit).

Who earns the distinction of being called a virtuoso?