Her friends said she was determined to learn the lessons of Labour's involvement in the Scottish independence referendum and that "she wants Labour to run a distinct and distinctive campaign in the in/out referendum".
Though each of them had a very distinct reaction to the challenges of making art that seemed honest and relevant to the present moment, it was also true that in talking to the four of them separately, common themes emerged.
When asked to respond to Simon Cowell's recent comment that Clarkson "started to fight against what made her successful … one minute she wants to make pop records, and then she doesn't," she laughs loudly again, but there's a distinct flash of anger as she says: "Everyone's aware that My Life Would Suck Without You and Already Gone were huge pop hits, right?
By my mid-twenties my career was on a distinct and structured path.
Those who want a straight extension of the Patriot Act are in a distinct minority and supporters of the USA Freedom Act still cannot muster the necessary super majority to advance the bill.
By the beginning of 2006, the site had 100,000 users and hosted torrents for nearly a million distinct albums, making it four times bigger than the iTunes store.
But if we look behind actually existing neoliberalism's superficial slogans about pure markets we find a distinct lack of internal coherence.
To such catastrophic "modernity", the most likely political response is often conservatism – with a small "c", as distinct from the self-annulling Conservatism of today's radical modernisers.
In contrast to his production work for rappers like Joey Bada$$ and Souls of Mischief, Bannon's solo work is a distinct brand of atmospheric jungle which nods as much to digital culture as it does to the early years sounds of Goldie's Metalheadz label.
This means the frog is not only extremely distinct, but also highly threatened.
"By contrast, five of the eight bodies in our study yielded more than one type of tuberculosis – remarkably, from one individual, we obtained evidence of three distinct strains".
