"distinctive status" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a unique or special position or condition that sets something or someone apart from others. Example: The new legislation grants certain minority groups a distinctive status, providing them with additional protections and resources.
Yet the formal, rather more expensive N.I.E. has a distinctive status and credibility in Washington.
The state's distinctive status guaranteed by Article 370, which gives its citizens and government special rights, must be upheld.
Or does the distinctive status of books as markers of knowledge and of reading as an intrinsically virtuous activity, validated in school from the earliest age, come into play?
This is one of the downsides of the European PDO and PGI (protected designation of origin and protected geographic indication) schemes, designed to protect the special, distinctive status of regional foodstuffs.
Still, being surrounded by towns like Wildwood and Atlantic City, where night life and liquor consumption are much more prevalent, Ocean City holds a distinctive status — whose value may be hard to quantify, despite residents' awareness of it.
Although India is now a far bigger consumer than Italy of gold for jewelry, the region around here has retained its distinctive status as the gold workshop of the world, with ore arriving from South Africa along with the old bracelets and necklaces destined for the crucible.
It might be objected, for example, that bringing new individuals into existence that have the (previously) distinctive moral status of normal human adults somehow lessens the value of that status for extant humans, as expanding membership in an exclusive club might lessen its value to its already existing members.
The idea is that persons as such have a distinctive moral status in virtue of which we have special categorical obligations to regard and treat them in ways that are constrained by certain inviolable limits.
Chief among the upshots of this is that what Kumārila and other Mīmāṃsakas took to be the basis for the distinctive epistemic status of the Vedas namely, their being transcendently "impersonal" (apauruṣeya)—was effectively claimed, as well, for whole traditions of learning ostensibly relatable to the Vedas.
The RTA promoter has distinctive methylation status during latency and lytic replication (Fig. 2).
The differences in the TNF profile exhibited by these 3 populations of lymphocytes mirrors their distinctive maturation status.
