The asylum architecture, horticultural layout, high standards of mental health care and emphasis on scientific training initiated in the early part of the last century continue to date and many of its alumni hold distinguished positions all over the world.
Most people hold distinguished university professorships and directorships of research centers at their respective institutions, have served or currently serving as presidents of professional organizations, and/or editors-in-chief of global journals.
The philosopher Bergson attacked scientific dogmatism and exalted humankind's nonrational drives notably a creative force that he called élan vital, which he held distinguishes heroic individuals and nations from the plodding herd.
According to one account, the D.C. advocates' hard sell leaned heavily on the annual cherry-blossom festivals, the "colorful parades constantly held when distinguished foreign guests visit the city" and "the elaborate and dignified presidential inauguration celebrations".
This, the classical compatibilist held, effectively distinguishes those alternative courses of action that were within the scope of the agent's abilities at the time of action, from those courses of action that were not.
F. Stephen Larrabee holds the Distinguished Chair in European Security and Peter A. Wilson is a senior adjunct international security analyst at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution.
PAS holds a Distinguished Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
According to Hempel, it is the implicit claim that some such law holds that "distinguishes" (2.4.1) from "a mere sequential narrative" in which the spilling is said to follow the impact but without any claim of causal connection a narrative that (Hempel thinks) would clearly not be explanatory.
Certainly, the burial of the dead is one of the things that distinguishes humans from our ancestors, and one of the things that is held by archaeologists to distinguish skeletons of people like us from those of people who have not quite got to full humanity.
