Sentence examples for principal distinctions from inspiring English sources

The principal distinctions concern piety and liturgy rather than doctrine.

It is in Shakespeare's most profound insights that Schlegel locates one of the principal distinctions between Classical and Shakespearean tragedy, in what he calls Shakespeare's "secret irony".

The extent of the controls imposed on the economy is one of the principal distinctions between capitalist, socialist, and communist systems.

Its subtopics are "Of Man and his connections," "Of Duty, or Moral Obligation," "The Final Causes of our Moral Faculties of Perception and Affection," "The Principal Distinctions of Duty or Virtue," "Of Man's Duty to Himself," "Of the Nature of Good, and the Chief Good," "Duties to Society," and so on.

The principal distinctions made by Stedman were in the suddenness of the onset and the nature and duration of the after-pains of dengue (present-day chikungunya) (9 ).

One of the principal distinctions between the acute and chronic GVHD models appears to be the nine-fold reduction in CTL precursor numbers with anti-host specificity (which eliminate autoreactive host B cells) generated during GVHD induced by DBA/2 mouse spleen cells rather than by B6 mouse spleen cells [ 12].

The principal distinction between the films is one of pace and hue.

The principal distinction of Airstream's European models, I'd been told, was that they'd been condensed in sympathy with our cramped and twisty-turny continent.

Attachment to, and competition for, territory is common to all animals – the principal distinction being that human territorial attachments have historically resulted in more complex, and usually bloodier, consequences.

Carried to its logical extreme, it will spell the destruction of freedom of choice in every walk of life: it will destroy that moral freedom, that ability to choose which is the principal distinction between men and animals.

And even allowing them to earn money from outside sources would endanger the myth of the "student-athlete" playing for the love of the game alone, a principal distinction between highly popular college sports and professional minor leagues that are all but ignored.