Tariff quotas may be distinguished from import quotas.
Spinel may be distinguished from ruby by its lesser hardness and lighter weight.
It may be distinguished from jadeite, jade's other form, by its splintery fracture and oily lustre.
These fold belts may be distinguished from cratonic areas where sediments remain much as they were when formed.
It may be distinguished from calcite, the commoner form of calcium carbonate, by its greater hardness and specific gravity.
A "positive" ending of this sort suggests one major way in which Trevor's short fiction may be distinguished from that of his great predecessor, the author of "Dubliners".
Because citizens do not govern the state themselves but through representatives, republics may be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.
Patrilineally related men and their families, scattered or not, commonly regard themselves as a group with rights over a particular territory and may be distinguished from neighbours on a territorial basis as well.
Velarized consonants may be distinguished from velar consonants, in which the primary articulation involves the back of the tongue and the velum; in velarized consonants there must always be some other primary articulation.
Related states of awareness may be distinguished from the dream experiences typically reported; these include dreamlike states experienced as a person falls asleep and as he awakens, respectively called hypnagogic and hypnopompic reveries.
An alder may be distinguished from a birch by its usually stalked winter buds and by cones that remain on the branches after the small, winged nutlets are released.
