They cleave to the idea of the special occasion, as distinct from the school of cookery that envisages every day as a blur of exotic ingredients and recherché processes.
As of last September, the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement Systemm, a $24.3 billion fund that is distinct from the school workers' fund, had 23 percent of its pension investments in hedge funds, another 23 percent in private equity and venture capital, and an additional 8.4 percent in real estate — bringing its total in alternative investments to more than 54 percent.
As mentioned above hospitals commonly have identities distinct from medical schools and physicians although the relationships with these groups are essential.
These services were then seen as a social environment, distinct from home and from school.
Falun Gong is distinct from other qigong schools in that its teachings cover a wide range of spiritual and metaphysical topics, placing emphasis on morality and virtue, and elaborating a complete cosmology.
As explained to the Board's Hearing Officer, in Illinois the term "approval" is distinct from "recognition". Before a school may operate, it must be approved by the State's Department of Education.
The UC program was designed to function as a network of independent sites rather than a building based program, and is uniquely distinct from the satellite medical school models, as well as from the NOSM model, as it seeks to integrate community based medical education into an existing traditional medical school.
How distinct this school was from the 'Megaric' school is a matter of dispute, and one testimony does speak of a certain 'Diodorus the Megaric' (see Denyer 2002), who may well be Diodorus Cronus.
The Alexander technique is thus distinct from manipulation, 10 back schools, 11 and conventional physiotherapy.
The programme for building permanent schools is distinct from UNICEF's project to build 200 temporary schools in Aceh and North Sumatra.
Proponents of this approach highlight Suhrawardi's aim to expound on Avicenna's incomplete project to develop an 'Eastern' (not 'illuminative') philosophy of Khurasan (mashriqiyya), in spite of the fact that Avicenna's 'Eastern' philosophy was not a mystical enterprise, but merely a philosophical tradition distinct from the one of the school of Baghdad (Gutas 2000).
