Sentence examples for constitute a distinction from inspiring English sources

Once citizenship was universal, it ceased to constitute a distinction; thus the declaration of it through the custom of funerary commemoration rapidly passed out of favour.

One source of the idea that a difference in type of content helps constitute a distinction between what is and is not phenomenally conscious lies in the apparent distinction between sense experience and judgment.

These findings constitute a major distinction between CTGV (also SAV, ARAV, PSTV, and GP2V, which exhibit profiles 1 and 2) and the other Brazilian isolates BAV, VBH, and GP1V (profile 3).

If we were to extend Newton's enumeration to the remaining paragraphs, then paragraphs V XII constitute a sustained defense of the distinctions as characterized in I IV.

Courts in the U.S. and many other countries would have a hard time making that distinction and in most jurisdictions such actions could constitute a defense to criminal liability.

Max Beerbohm once wrote that there would come a moment when knights would constitute a majority of the population and it would be deemed a greater distinction not to be a knight than to be one.

Two objects constitute a pair.

Extremists -- which constitute a minority -- are responsible for the strained relationship between the West and the Middle East, and in the heat of the moment we forget and blur these distinctions.

does not constitute a summary.

It would not constitute an attempt to deny any and all distinctions between humans and non-human species.

And it seems to me that this claim does indeed constitute an attempt at a solution to the problem of distinction.