Sentence examples for strange distinction from inspiring English sources

Tucked into that sentence is a strange distinction; apparently, some of the things we experience while alive count as life while others do not.

That might seem a strange distinction to a layman, but in the argot elimination is defined as a reduction in the number of cases in a population to below one per 10,000 people; eradication implies that no cases exist at all.

McLuhan, of course, is the man who coined the term "global village," came up with phrase "the medium is the message" and drew the strange distinction between a "hot," or sharp, medium -- "one that extends one single sense in 'high definition' " -- and a "cool," or fuzzy, medium.

"La Pointe Courte" later earned Varda the nickname Grandmother of the New Wave — a slightly strange distinction, since she was born only a couple of years before other pioneers of the movement, like her husband, Jacques Demy, or her friend Jean-Luc Godard, who was twenty-nine when "Breathless" came out, in 1960.

The decision, concerning the activities of some people charged with terrorism (whose names were placed on both the United Nations and the European Union lists), makes a strange distinction, invented by the judge herself, between terrorists and guerrillas.

This leads to strange distinctions.

It's hard to see why — and it's not just those of us without legal training who find the distinction strange.

Particular significance in the above question lies in the fact that strange and interesting distinctions can occur between the theory of differential equations and the theory of difference equations.

Watching this was the MP Michael Fabricant, better known for his strange hair than any political distinction.

Troemel is best known as the co-creator of the popular Tumblr blog the Jogging, an online art factory that, starting in 2009, produced thousands of strange images that blurred the distinction between art and meme.

It soon became clear that a strange, racially charged and legally confused distinction would be at the heart of Pistorius's trial.