After these curiously personal bits of information were revealed, the final section of the form asked you to select a "candy period" representative of your ideological "taste," with 4 distinct options available to choose from: Imperialism, Fascism, Communism/Socialism, and Capitalism.
Two radically distinct options are available to the chemist, who wants to design an oxygen carrier, depending on whether the dioxygen molecule is chemically bound to, or simply dissolved in the carrier.
Seven distinct options are identified, and lead to placing the spacecraft into the final disposal orbit, which is either (a) a lunar capture orbit, (b) a lunar impact trajectory, (c) a stable lunar periodic orbit, or (d) an outer orbit, never approaching the Earth or the Moon.
We cannot determine from the present data whether the inter-trajectory differences in the path followed during the flipping transition are due to the presence of a few distinct options, or because the intermediate is so disordered (due to the lack of tertiary contacts) that its motion is essentially diffusive until the secondary structure elements reform contacts with each other.
Though we have identified paracomplete and paraconsistent approaches to the Liar as two distinct options, they are not incompatible.
We have just witnessed a serious but transparent competition to elect the prime minister, with clear and distinct options.
As far as second acts go, public life in post-imperial Britain offers two distinct options.
The Chilcot report quotes Blair as acknowledging that there were two distinct options within the Iraq Options Paper in March 2002: containment or regime change.
This is a novel idea, as the Constitution lays out only two distinct options: the country is at war, or it is not.
So, in next year's European parliament elections voters will be presented with several distinct options for the future direction of the EU.
