Sentence examples for distinctions were lost from inspiring English sources

Monterey's other distinctions were lost on me.

The distinctions were lost on the contractors and engineers engaged to build the $7.5 million cloud.

Such subtle distinctions were lost in the hysterical post-war atmosphere.

It is to be remembered that even popular Latin verse used measures of vowel length, and there is no evidence to suggest that vowel-length distinctions were lost in vulgar preclassical speech.

Local distinctions are lost, sharp curves disappear, and the world is made softer, quieter, and simpler.

While Gillard's record in office on core feminist issues is questionable, such distinctions are lost to those immersed in the euphoria of resentment.

There may still be many Chinas, but the movies are fast becoming their own sovereign domain, a vast, featureless country in which local distinctions are lost.

But such distinctions are lost on some local Latino and West Indian residents, who call the newer arrivals Africans or "los africanos".

Due to the difficulties in gaining a rigorous assessment of migraine in relation to menstruation timing, these group distinctions are lost in large cohort studies.

But the result of this universalization or "worlding" ("mondialisation" is the French word for globalization) is that the concept of war, and thus of world war, of enemy, and even of terrorism, along with the distinctions between civilian and military or between army, police, and militia, all of these concepts and distinctions are losing their pertinence.

The distinction is lost on many lawmakers, even among those who support the idea.