"highlight the distinction" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize a difference between two things. For example, "The study highlights the distinction between the two approaches to the problem."
In this entry, we shall generally treat these two formulations as being equivalent, but we will highlight the distinction when it becomes significant.
One reason why it is important to highlight the distinction between modal claims that are confused and modal claims that are not is that there are many modal claims that we might want to give a rigorous analysis but that Descartes would not.
In doing so, the typology is able to identify which types of mobile health professionals are likely to escape data collection, to highlight the distinction between free mobility within the EU and migration outside the EU's external borders, and to act as tool for designing policies adapted to the diversity of health professional mobility.
In addition, our data highlight the distinction between clinical and bench research.
Figure 9 is intended to highlight the distinction between somatomotor prediction errors that result in movement, and somatosensory prediction errors that inform percepts.
To highlight the distinction between un-inverted and inverted-pendular mechanics, I qualify the description, thus referring to the hybrid gait as an 'inverted pendular run'.
The economic push is intended to highlight the distinctions between Democratic and Republican proposals on health care, jobs, energy prices, education and taxes.
We present comparative analyses among U.S. adults using a large, nationally representative sample (NHANES) in order to highlight the distinctions between Tsimane and members of a sedentary, well-fed and low infection population.
Investigations of marine mammal feeding modes highlight the distinctions between ram-feeding and suction-feeding species [ 16– 20].
Further highlighting the distinction, XpsE and XcsE belong to distinct T2S E subfamilies, which differ by an N-terminal domain, N0, that is present and essential in XpsE [61], but missing from XcsE.
