Sentence examples for official distinction from inspiring English sources

If a home is considered substantially damaged by the storm — an official distinction that means the cost to repair it to its pre-storm condition would be at least 50 percent of the value of the house itself, not including the land — then it must be raised to meet the current flood safety standard.

Along with the software upgrade comes Daydream compatibility, meaning you'll be able to plug the phone into Google's new VR headset without any hassle, marking the first non-Google-branded handset to be certified with that official distinction.

Since the foundation of Portugal, the national flag was always linked to the royal arms and, up until 1640, there was no official distinction between both.

If the official distinction is "abandoned" or "dead," you will need to follow different paths to revive it.

But the French model of citizenship does not allow for official distinctions by race or religion.

He dictated a statement in which he said that he had always turned down "official distinctions" in the past, out of a conviction that "the writer must not allow himself to be transformed by institutions".

Before the meeting, recognising her growing fame abroad, and embarrassed by the fact that she had no French official distinctions to wear in public, the French government offered her a Legion of Honour award, but she refused.

The maker of the first Swiss wristwatch labels each piece with the Geneva Seal, the highest official quality distinction in the watchmaking industry.

If I were a legislator, I'd be thinking about whether they can be justified under strict scrutiny," the constitutional standard necessary to justify official racial distinctions under the 14th Amendment.

Defense Department officials said the distinction for them was that General Sjamsoeddin was only implicated, not convicted.

Israeli officials reject any distinction between its citizens living on either side of the 1967 boundary.