The broad visual uniformity of the colour, form and decoration of the plain bowls across the eastern Mediterranean provides little distinction by which to identify centres of production, distribution patterns, or regional traits.
And simply to write the government off, to concoct some false distinction by which the Bible deprives it of jurisdiction or relieves it of responsibility, is to surrender an important and often powerful means of helping the poor while letting politicians off the hook.
On Notice In 1927 German jurist Carl Schmitt developed a concept called the "friend-enemy distinction," a principle by which he believed all political action should be reduced.
Because of the historic disparagement of gay persons, the retention of a distinction in nomenclature by which the term "marriage" is withheld only from the family relationship of same-sex couples is all the more likely to cause the new parallel institution that has been established for same-sex couples to be considered a mark of second-class citizenship... .. Did you get that?
Owen adapted an image from Wittgenstein in characterizing these arguments, ones which "can only show the vacuousness of temporal and spatial distinctions by a proof which employs them," as "a ladder which must be thrown away when one has climbed it" (Owen 1960, 67).
The Mohists propose three fa for "statements" or "sayings" (yan), by which "the distinctions between 'this' and 'not' and benefit and harm...can be clearly known" (Book 35, "Condemning Fatalism").
At the present time, our existing taxonomy does not reflect these distinctions which capture the processes by which aggressive acts come to be [ 17, 18].
The findings are correlative at this point with no data implicating any mechanisms by which these distinctions arise, and they require greater rigor in both data and interpretation.
Mexicans are no different in this respect -- our only distinction lies in our strategies by which we attempt to reduce its significance.
Accordingly, ancient Chinese skepticism as expressed in the Zhuangzi, for example—is not concerned with the unreliability of sense perception or a gap between appearance and reality, but with the problem of grounding the norms by which we draw distinctions between things.
