In the rose window of Notre Dame, luxury is represented "as a woman titivating herself in front of a mirror", says Christopher Berry in his study "The Idea of Luxury", published in 1994.Sumptuary laws were devised over the centuries to discourage dissipation, curb imports of expensive fripperies and (often hypocritically) preserve distinctions of rank.
However, the mainstream of moral philosophy has been to make both not-harming and helping to be obligations, while preserving the distinction between the two.
We found that preserving a distinction between barriers and enablers was not meaningful: It became apparent that most factors operate along a spectrum, where they enable uptake when present or satisfactory, or limit uptake when absent or unsatisfactory.
The differential prognostic impact of SATB2 expression in colon and rectal cancer is noteworthy and further underlines the importance of preserving a distinction between the two disease entities, which should also be considered in future validatory studies.
Ivan Erickson, who makes bold masks, believes that retaining the art conventions of the Dominican Republic is vital to preserving cultural distinctions.
Generally, I think this approach could help bring together the user experiences of Feed and Stories, while preserving the distinctions that make each useful.
It's our hope to preserve the distinction".
Let's preserve the distinction between shaming and imprisonment.
He added, "I certainly have tried here to preserve the distinction between news material and classified advertising.
Surely it was quaintly legalistic of America's allies to preserve a distinction that events had made defunct.
The academy may wish to preserve a distinction, however blurry, between creative content and sponsorship, but that principle melted long ago.
