Sentence examples for relevant distinction from inspiring English sources

He says that neither laypersons nor philosophers can articulate a relevant distinction, because each instance satisfies the utilitarian standard of achieving the greatest good for the greatest number and that the scenarios are morally equivalent.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion, wrote, "The relevant distinction that has emerged from our cases is between conditions that define the limits of the government spending program those that specify the activities Congress wants to subsidize and conditions that seek to leverage funding to regulate speech outside the contours of the program itself".

Oh, and one more thing: there are cases right now of countries with their own currency but with lots of foreign-currency debt that make depreciation contractionary versus expansionary — for example, Hungary (where lots of people took out mortgages in Swiss francs!) So this is still a relevant distinction.

As we have explained, supra, at 5 6, Scott confirms that the relevant distinction is between judicial determinations that go to "the criminal defendant's lack of criminal culpability," and those that hold "that a defendant, although criminally culpable, may not be punished because of a supposed" procedural error.

Yet, as a general principle, individuals should not be afforded different treatment by the State unless there is a relevant distinction between them, and "a statutory discrimination must be based on differences that are reasonably related to the purposes of the Act in which it is found". Morey v. Doud, 354 U.S. 457, 465 (1957).

We see no relevant distinction between introduction of this statement and the unsigned alleged confession, except the possibility that the admission of this longconcealed knowledge was perhaps a more effective confession of guilt than the written unsigned alleged confession would have been.

The argument fails because there are obviously relevant distinctions that can be made between Washington and Jefferson on the one hand and Confederate leaders on the other.

Barbara Landau told me that the "Caprice" experiment lent support to scientists who doubted that there was a firm division in psychology between procedural and explicit knowledge, saying, "It is likely that the relevant distinctions are more nuanced than these terms suggest".

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4: Evaluate whether totals and averages obscure relevant distinctions and trade-offs.

See section 3.1 for a detailed discussion of the relevant distinctions.