The "now-cast" is trained not to overreact to modest changes in the polls, and so it had trouble distinguishing any convention bounce for Mr. Romney from statistical noise.
Despite the efforts by Mr. McAuliffe and other Democrats to distinguish the convention from the Republicans' gathering, some party officials acknowledged that thanking donors and soliciting more funds are an important part of the agenda.
Changeux cites how 4-year-old children distinguish social conventions such as dietary taboos, which they see as applying only to specific social groups, from universally obligatory moral rules against robbery, murder, slander &c (p. 77)—a distinction he hopes will help us form general moral rules applicable to all humanity, not just one tribe or nation (p. 79).
First, moral norms have to be distinguished from mere social conventions in that they are somehow regarded to be universally valid, independent from the commands of social authority and a particular culture.
(A medical convention distinguishes the names of genes from the names of the proteins they produce by italicising the former).
I do not believe that we will be able to distinguish between the Convention and the IGC unless we manage to change national thinking.
They distinguished between nature (physis) and convention (nomos), putting laws in the latter category.
Planescape, a role-playing game, breaks many of the conventions that have distinguished the genre since it emerged two decades ago.
Akan linguistic conventions distinguish infants from full persons on the basis of their lacking intellectual and moral maturity.
Yet, Schlick confesssed, he was unable to discover any characteristics of these alleged synthetic apriori principles that genuinely distinguish them from conventions.
Design, production and installation processes are distinguished between designers and manufacturers by common conventions in "open building" concept as an industrialised building system approach.
