Sentence examples for public distinction from inspiring English sources

Tacitus appears to have made his own mark socially and was making much progress toward public distinction; he would obviously benefit from Agricola's political connections.

Public distinction among supposedly equal citizens, intimate relations based on consent and affection rather than authority, visions of a re-formed world: these problems also preoccupied them.

Faith-based free schools have sought to draw a clear public distinction between teaching creationism in science and teaching the biblical creation story in RE.

Voltaire was, on many counts, anti-establishment, yet eager to gain public distinction and recognition through election to the esteemed Académie Française (he was initially rejected by the ultra-conservative membership dominated by the hierarchy of the Catholic church).

In an earlier age, his ambition and intelligence would have been sufficient to guarantee him high political office and public distinction, but he had the misfortune of being elected at a time when his views were both unfashionable and also inimical to those of the leadership of his party.

He was once, among his many other public distinctions, a director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and he reminds me of the Verdi who could mount the premiere of his youthfully romantic "Falstaff" when he was 80.

The instructions of the public task inherently draw attention to the private-public distinction, but this is not true of the private task.

But today Mr. Fleischer found himself with the delicate task of drawing a public, political distinction between Mr. Arafat and the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

The practical significance of the public-private distinction is that if the organizations are deemed to be public, they will be governed by the same constitutional constraints that apply to government agencies; the Constitution places limits on government, but not on private, behavior.

It must drop the public-display distinction for marijuana, which invites far too many abuses.

The most emotionally intense experiences are national ones, so the public-private distinction was bound to erode.