The historicists also opposed the idea that theories can secure meaning and empirical support from a theory-neutral and purely observational source, as the Syntactic View had insisted on with its strong distinction between theoretical and observational vocabularies (cf. Galison 1988).
Designed by Mayne and the DLR Group, the building was to be built using concrete and steel with a goal of earning Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEEDD) certification for sustainability, with large amounts of natural lighting designed to help secure that distinction.
After the election, Mr. Erickson went home to Cleburne, having secured the distinction of switching just as the political tide was turning strongly in favor of the Republican Party.
Until the destiny of the nation's varieties becomes more secure, the distinctions the local food movement makes among regional and national should be meaningless.
On Tuesday, 18-year-old Saira Blair won a seat in West Virginia's state legislature, securing the distinction of being the youngest lawmaker in the nation.
That said, around half of UTC students took a BTec extended diploma (equivalent to three A-levels); 96% of those secured a merit or distinction and 99% passed.
Although neither an inspiring nor flawless leader, Sharif was fair-minded, and bears the historic distinction of helping secure his country's climb toward democracy, now hopefully inexorable.
"With the rush of vehicles came a stampede of Marathon runners representing athletic clubs ambitious to secure for their organizations the distinction of having been the first athlete to cross the bridge").
So, while in Part I of the Dialogues Philo has no immediate response to Cleanthes's argument, later in the Dialogues he continues to use some distinction between the secure reasoning available in common life and those too far removed from it.
Her appointment makes the Hertfordshire-born executive the first female president of a network news operation in the US – a distinction she also secured in the UK in 2004.
