The majority overlooks the distinction between legislative prayer and town Board meetings and the two distinctive audiences, legislators and citizens, to whom the prayers are addressed.
It is the distinction between legislative and executive abilities.
The N.R.A. ranked higher in the foundation's sport shooting competition with Congressional staff members: its chief lobbyist won a top honor for target shooting at the 2012 event, sharing that distinction with legislative aides to four House members and a senator.
The dissent emphasized the distinction between legislative sessions and town board meetings where ordinary citizens might appear and petition.
Obama will leave office later this month with an awkward distinction: Barring a legislative miracle, he will be the first president of either party since Ronald Reagan to not sign a minimum wage package.
Although as the rapporteur I must recommend all the amendments, I can tell you now that a political group, in fact the one to which I belong, is going to try and remove all national legislative options which enable a distinction to be made between national powers.
*I originally wrote "personhood amendment" without qualification, but there can be a distinction between personhood amendments and legislative attempts to define life as beginning at conception.
"Frankly, it is outrageous for the GAO to claim that 'recent legislative and regulatory changes have blurred some distinctions between credit unions and other depository institutions such as banks,'" said the group's head, Dan Mica Dan Mica, a former Democratic congressman from Florida.
One analyst said it was important to draw a distinction between the three senators, who have a legislative track record, and the House members who thrived mainly on controversy.
Rwanda has the distinction of having the world's first female-majority legislative body; after the 2008 elections, 55 percent of the deputies were women.
