Sentence examples for distinction use from inspiring English sources

If there are no good reasons for a primary versus secondary effect distinction, use the unique approach.

If your state makes this distinction, use "and" if you want both partners to approve anything done with the car title.

That distinction used to belong to Brett Favre.

Locke explains his metaphysical distinction using one physical theory, the corpuscular hypothesis, as an illustration, and he often appears to accept or even defend that hypothesis.

Thomas Aquinas, for example, refers to Boethius's distinction using the terms necessitas consequentiae and necessitas consequentis (Summa contra gentiles I.67; De veritate I.23, ad 13).

This distinction used to make more sense when there was a gulf between when movies were released physically (on DVD) and digitally (on VOD).

Yet, each research investigation also has a corresponding study design or "architecture," and in patient-oriented research a common distinction used to describe such designs are randomized controlled trials (RCTs) versus observational studies.

Moreover, although original in its development Avicenna's distinction uses terms and concepts that can be found in both the philosophical and the theological traditions of classical Islam: in al-Fārābī's Book of Letters (K. al-Ḥurūf; cf. Menn 2008) and also in the distinctions of Muʿtazilite Kalām, in which a "thing" was conceived of as separate from existence (Jolivet 1984; Wisnovsky 2003a).

And indeed, initial press reports on the statements of top U.S. officials in response to the coup made no such distinction, using the descriptions "coup" and "military coup" interchangeably.

Oceana, an environmental group focused on protecting the world's oceans, analyzed dozens of salmon samples around the country identified as "wild-caught," a distinction used to differentiate the fish from their farmed, often imported counterparts.

A gene expression-based signature that can distinguish between cancer and normal tissues would be of little practical use if a physician can easily make the same distinction using standard (and less expensive) clinical approaches.