Sentence examples for makes us distinctive from inspiring English sources

Our accent is one of the things which makes us distinctive.

In fact it is our capacity to adapt and transform in terms of social practices and behaviours that makes us distinctive as a species and in which our specifically human nature is to be located.

This key symbiosis between our faculty and graduate students makes us distinctive and is at the heart of Berkeley's teaching and research excellence". The last assessment by the NRC, in 1995, numerically ranked doctoral programs, placing UC Berkeley among the top 10 in 35 of 36 fields.

A positive case that celebrates not just what makes us distinctive but also celebrates what we share.

"What makes us distinctive is that we honor the past and promote the future," says Mary Seidman, festival co-producer.

And frankly we celebrate that, and I think it still does make us distinctive".

"The original title of The University of Northumbria at Newcastle was cumbersome, it suggests, by the inclusion of 'at Newcastle', it was the only thing that made us distinctive".

Linnaeus, that great classifier of living things, gave us our biological name Homo sapiens (meaning "wise man") and our high rounded skulls certainly make us distinctive, as do our small brow ridges and chins.

Some of the pushback against global forces derives from appropriate fear of a loss of control and some from a sense that those attributes that made us distinctive can no longer survive.

For, as he says, "our distinctive way of thinking makes us us". This distinctive way of thinking, apparently, began with the Ionians, mainland Greeks who immigrated eastward to the hardscrabble coast of Asia Minor 2,700 years ago.

They were creatures retaining ape-sized brains, large faces, big chewing teeth and short stature; but they already shared with us the bipedal locomotion which makes us so physically distinctive in the modern world.