Breaking from a widely held consensus, the author rejects outright any theoretical distinction between facts (Earth is round) and values (Thou shalt not kill); to him the study of values is reducible to the study of the well being of conscious creatures.
Amazing the number of synonyms and euphemisms we have developed to draw distinctions between outright condemnation and flexibility when it comes to truth-telling.
R.A. O'Brien, the head of the WPRL, who negotiated the commercial contract with the MRC, rejected the suggestion outright, arguing that there was an important distinction between funding work on an experimental vaccine and funding its commercial manufacture.
As such, anyone who truly wants to understand Jehovah's Witnesses and their teachings has to do thorough research and make a clear distinction between facts, hearsay or outright lies.
In the other corner however is what could fast be approaching a majority of Conservative MPs, disgruntled by their failure to win an outright majority, and keen to make a clear distinction between themselves and their coalition partners in the Lib Dems by tacking to the right.
Censored games Manhunt 2: Achieved the dubious distinction of being the only game to be banned outright in the UK, on grounds of excessive violence.
The passage of questioning about the nuclear claims in the weapons dossier this morning was important for that reason.The other distinction is between different kinds of dishonesty in other words, between outright lying and falsehood on one hand and other forms of distortion and exaggeration on the other.
The political scientist Arnold Heidenheimer draws a distinction between "black corruption" — things that just about everyone thinks are unacceptable, like outright bribery — and "gray corruption," which appalls élites but elicits only shrugs from ordinary voters.
However, given that the legal distinctions between "possession" and "trafficking" are unclear, the law often leads to police corruption and outright discrimination against the poor.
That dubious distinction goes to Tambora, which erupted with more than twice the power of Krakatoa, killed 10,000 people outright and caused the death of another 82,000 by starvation and disease.
