Sentence examples for chief distinction from inspiring English sources

But incongruity is not his chief distinction.

In Germany the chief distinction is between lawyers and notaries.

His brainchild, the Solar Impulse, will not be the first sun-powered plane to fly; its chief distinction is its ability to go through the night.

The chief distinction between these two pathways is the presence of specialized, thick-walled photosynthetic cells located in sheaths surrounding vascular bundles in C-4 plants.

As discussed earlier, the chief distinction between a hierarchical and a flat form of governance is who gets to define the problem and choose the solution.

Many of these are for obsessive-compulsives only: I've tried and failed to comprehend the CD cult of the late Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, whose chief distinction was that he played everything more slowly than anyone else.

Lucid textures and melodic inventiveness are its chief distinctions.

To the chance survival of individual compilations such as these derives the bulk of knowledge of the secular lyric, which is one of the chief distinctions of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Nobody will ever mistake Somerville for Little Havana, and on paper it's an unlikely restaurant capital -- a borough of 13,000 whose chief distinctions are that it's the Somerset County seat and the boyhood home of Paul Robeson.

Josephus held that the Pharisees and the other Jewish parties were philosophical schools, and some modern scholars have argued that the groupings were primarily along economic and social lines; but the chief distinctions among them were religious and go back well before the Maccabean revolt.

And though this column hates making predictions, if only because its chief journalistic distinction is usually being wrong a bit before everyone else, it will go out on a limb with two forecasts.