Sentence examples for legitimate distinction from inspiring English sources

Is there even a legitimate distinction to be drawn between academic and vocational education?

As Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist, told The New York Times: "There's a general rule in politics: a legitimate distinction which could be effective when drawn early in the campaign often backfires and could seem desperate when it happens in the final hours of a campaign".

"There's a general rule in politics: A legitimate distinction which could be effective when drawn early in the campaign often backfires and could seem desperate when it happens in the final hours of a campaign," said Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist working for neither candidate.

3. The question of whether a legitimate distinction can be made between a man and his work or achievements in another field as brought to light by Ed Koch in his weekly column.

WASHINGTON -- After the Washington Post published a story last week detailing how Bain Capital investments may have helped send American jobs overseas, the Mitt Romney campaign tried to draw the very legitimate distinction between "offshoring" and "outsourcing" in the modern American economy.

However, even if detrimental effects exist, this impairment could be due to a legitimate regulatory distinction and for this reason be altogether justified [18, 20].

Hence, the putative impairment of competitive opportunities of imported products would be justified by legitimate regulatory distinctions in terms of Art.

His account focuses primarily on the question of what justifies a state's use of coercion to enforce its laws, rather than on the question what grounds people may have to accept particular decisions made within the state as legitimate (for the distinction, see Simmons 2001).

Johanna Reeves, speaking on behalf of the F.A.I.R. Trade Group, an NGO, cautioned the Conference against making "broad and sweeping claims about the international trade in conventional arms contributing to violations of human rights, violence against women, and other abuses against humanity, with no distinction between lawful, legitimate trade and illicit dealings".

The collapse of the distinction between legitimate and fraudulent means of making money can end badly.

The bans make no distinction between legitimate collectors like Mr. Peters and Nazi sympathizers looking for props to promote their cause.