Sentence examples for substantive distinction from inspiring English sources

The biggest substantive distinction is that the path to citizenship is more arduous.

"In the last two years, Harper has neither amended his diagnosis of Pierre Trudeau nor drawn any substantive distinction between father and son.

But closer examination shows that there is also a substantive distinction, and it's a profound one.

Much like certain naturalists today, he argued that "materialism requires the unification of philosophy and science," thus denying any substantive distinction between science and philosophy (Horkheimer1993, 34).

The political differs from other spheres of value in that it is not based on a substantive distinction of its own.

Even more radically, it has been questioned whether it is even possible to draw any substantive distinction between rule guided and merely regular behavior at this fundamental level.

At one level, he is trying to draw substantive distinctions between his policy proposals and those of his Republican opponent.

The same holds, Schmitt thinks, for all other substantive distinctions that may become markers of identity and difference.

Recall again the distinction between substantive and formal theories of well-being.

While this distinction between substantive and procedural approaches to priority setting suggests that the two are incompatible, there is increasing consensus on the need to combine these approaches (Ham and Coulter 2000; Ruger 2004; Kamm 2005).

In introducing the views of the personalists, Vasubandhu draws a distinction between the substantive and the conceptual view of the self.