And the bigger the range of variation, the more there is to distinguish, rank and qualify.
"You could always distinguish rank when they were talking," Michael C. Adcock, a former sergeant who served as one of Colonel Henderson's radio operators, told me.
From the Tang period (618 907), certain designs, colours, and accessories were used to distinguish rank; the emperor, for example, wore a dark-coloured pao on which the 12 imperial symbols were displayed, and the pao worn by officials was red with large squares containing symbolic birds or animals ("mandarin squares") on the breast.
For the agents examined here, we were able to distinguish rank-order effects among different organophosphates and similarities and differences from a carbamate, which, although not an organophosphate, shares the ability to inhibit cholinesterase.
Socioeconomic status was assessed as the highest level of education obtained.[2] Seven education levels were distinguished and ranked from one (unfinished elementary, grade or primary school) to seven (college or university).
The aim of this paper is the design of a quantitative indicator able to distinguish, rate and rank different mechanical tests used to characterize the material behavior of sheet metals.
Since these fragment alignments are difficult to be distinguished and ranked, we take all of them into consideration.
Receiver-Operator-Characteristic (ROC) curves (which have been shown to be an effective method for evaluating gene expression data [ 55]) were generated for these COS-upregulated genes [ 54] by distinguishing each ranked gene as either a true positive or a false positive.
The actors were distinguished in rank by type and color of clothing, honing their acting skills at drama schools.
Distinguished salary-ranks were granted to officials in the bureaucracy, nobles of the imperial family, concubines of the harem, and military officers of the armed forces.
