Sentence examples for difficult distinctions from inspiring English sources

The Times's efforts to avoid gratuitous vulgarity have sometimes produced difficult distinctions.

Indeed, it ought to be one of the defining characteristics of an open society that we can and do make such difficult distinctions and act upon them -- even (especially) when the outcome is imperfect.

While there is a performance increase for all tag pairs we merged, confirming that they were difficult distinctions for the tagger, for most others performance is actually worse.

One of the most difficult distinctions in thyroid pathology is the differentiation between benign follicular adenoma and the encapsulated low-grade follicular carcinoma called minimally invasive carcinoma.

Fueling the debate is the often difficult distinction between fact and law in patent disputes.

But this may be a difficult distinction for the people in the bread lines".

So Trump's lawyers would probably need to draw a difficult distinction between quotes Bannon made as a campaign employee or private citizen versus those he made while employed by the White House.

So, governments exert control over both nonprofits and for-profits, and it's often a difficult distinction between a government activity and a private activity, because of the regulation that governments impose over companies and the taxes they collect.

He disliked battles about terminology, believing them to distract rather than illuminate, indicating in a leading case that the word nullity brings with it "the difficult distinction between what is void and what is voidable, and I certainly do not wish to recognise that the distinction exists or to analyse it if it does".

I agree it's difficult distinction to maintain, especially when most states have simply failed to do anything about expanding health insurance and also because the Obama plan is allowing a high degree of flexibility for individual states in implementing the new law.

"While I recognize that the department has attempted to make sure that its activities in Philadelphia will not be interpreted as associating the department with any partisan political causes, issues or activities, this will be, frankly, a difficult distinction for many people to make," Mr. Skelton wrote.