Sentence examples for only a distinctive from inspiring English sources

Some countries take such distinctions farther; for many years Indonesian Kopassus special operators wore not only a distinctive red beret but also a unique camouflage uniform.

There is only a distinctive pitch of ambition and excellence.

There is no Polke style, but only a distinctive force of talent and mind.

Thanks to Wölfflin, the term Baroque entered the language of cultural history to describe not only a distinctive style (or styles) of architecture but also an entire period and the artistic impulse that prevailed in it.

"The crucifix has always been considered not only a distinctive sign of a particular religious credo, but above all a symbol of the values that are at the base of our Italian identity," said Italy's president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, earlier this week.

Our world picture involves not only a distinctive set of beliefs about the world but also an ordering of interests that determines how we go about trying to have reliable beliefs.

We can talk historically of civilisations - the ancient Greeks or the Incas of South American, for example - but the term "civilisation" not only implies a distinctive culture but also a fairly self-contained and homogenous form of social organisation within geographical boundaries.

The Pennsylvania Germans (popularly called Pennsylvania Dutch) not only had a distinctive religion but clung tenaciously to the language and traditions of their native Pfalz (Palatinate, now in the state of Rhineland-Pfalz and in Bavaria), which in art included such crafts as fine painted furniture and such motifs as the tulip, heart, and vine.

Since a buffered gene will only show a distinctive U-shaped curve in the presence of its buffer, and a buffer may only be advantageous in the presence of a deleterious gene that it buffers, this underscores the importance of avoiding population stratification in such studies.

First, it is focused on the claim that "I know that such-and-such" always and only serves a distinctive performative function and so is never at the service of self-description.

It revealed only a single distinctive protein band for the pure preparation of ASNase II with an apparent molecular weight of 35 kDa, corresponding to a monomer of the denatured enzyme.