Sentence examples for personal distinction from inspiring English sources

"He was a war hero, a combat veteran, a person of enormous personal distinction in his record of public service, in the Senate, but, also, in uniform," Blumenthal said.

Risk is largely represented by personal distinction, regional charm and individuality, the personality traits that once drove Jazz, then Rock, then Hip-Hop, to new heights of both artistic and commercial success.

But the truth was that he was simply more interested in programme and personal distinction than in greed.

Jim Burden declares, "There was not a man in Black Hawk who had the intelligence or cultivation, much less the personal distinction, of Ántonia's father".

The people were misled by demagogues; they were intolerant enough to put Plato's master, Socrates, to death; they were envious of all personal distinction; and of their three great wars (against Persia, Sparta, and Macedonia) they lost two.

To be a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man... to have personal distinction a man must have either blood, a million or be a genius".

(Calixtus, however, condemned and excommunicated Sabellius [fl. c. 215 c. 220], the most prominent champion of modalistic monarchianism, called Sabellianism, a heretical doctrine that denied personal distinctions within the Godhead).

Because the lack of dissent and consultation in the Fascist system allowed Mussolini to follow his personal caprice, the distinction now being made in Italy between a good and a bad Fascism is untenable.

For perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, response efficacy and personal responsibility, a distinction was made between how these factors concerned the mother and how they concerned the child.> Audio tapes were not used for any of the FGDs because the participants were suspicious of the discussions being recorded.

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Here, a distinction between personal level rule following and sub-personal rule following could be used.