"explicit distinction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is typically used to refer to a clear and specific differentiation between two things. It can be used when there is a need to clearly and directly state the difference between two concepts or ideas. Example: The speaker made an explicit distinction between the responsibilities of the government and those of its citizens in regards to protecting the environment.
He would like to see an explicit distinction between system-wide risks and those peculiar to individual banks.
The results support optimal integration theories, and suggest that spatial and non-spatial aspects of vision need explicit distinction in bimodal studies and theories of spatial integration.
We make an explicit distinction between three different types of co-patenting partners: intra-industry partners, inter-industry partners, and universities.
Issued abruptly on a Friday afternoon, it temporarily barred travel from seven majority-Muslim nations, making no explicit distinction between citizens of those countries who already had green cards or visas and those who did not.
He did not draw an explicit distinction between cuts of necessity and cuts of choice, but the idea of necessity was there as he set out a hierarchy of ways to save money.
But growing criticism of the fifth edition, even before publication, gave Insel room to draw a more explicit distinction between his group and the A.P.A. "All us critics out here have given him an opening," Greenberg said.
This viewpoint is best developed in the literature on implicit memory, but we will see how the implicit-explicit distinction can be extended beyond memory to other cognitive domains, such as perception and thinking, and beyond cognition to the domains of emotion and motivation.
Even if I were to agree, and I do not, that the plain-error doctrine has no role in § 2254 actions, I could not accept the Court's analysis because it fails to consider the explicit congressional distinction between § 2254, 3 a civil collateral review procedure for state prisoners, and § 2255, 4 a criminal collateral review procedure for federal prisoners.
Of particular interest, I think, is the explicit-implicit distinction, which assumes that memories, percepts, etc., come in two forms: explicit or conscious, and implicit or unconscious.
The explicit-implicit distinction in cognition, emotion, and motivation.
at least one question on the explicit-implicit distinction (covered in those lectures).
