Sentence examples for venerable distinction from inspiring English sources

Pension funds have blurred somewhat the venerable distinction between capital and labor.

Consider first the venerable distinction between essential and accidental properties.

The distinction between determinables and determinates has played a larger role in recent metaphysics than the more venerable distinction between genus and species.

A particularly rich application of the possible world analysis of intensions concerns the analysis of the venerable distinction between de re and de dicto modality.[11] Among the strongest modal intuitions is that the possession of a property has a modal character — that things exemplify, or fail to exemplify, some properties necessarily, or essentially, and others only accidentally.

But the country stands as a singular example of the way venerable distinctions of ethnicity, sect and history can be manipulated in the Arab world, often cynically, in the pursuit of power.

Williams himself is not particularly impressed by those venerable distinctions;[21] but he does think that there is a real and crucial distinction that is closely related to them, and that it is a central objection to utilitarianism that it ignores this distinction.

Kagame has also received the highest awards bestowed by the countries of Liberia and Benin, the Distinction of the Grand Cordon in the Most Venerable Order of the Knighthood of Pioneers, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit respectively.

Announced this afternoon on a special edition of the venerable children's TV show, the Blue Peter Book awards have the unusual distinction of being judged by a panel of eight- to nine-year-old readers.

Second, notice how distinctions between entities as different as fish and beef and chicken have collapsed; those three venerable foods, each representing an entirely different taxonomic class, are now lumped together as delivery systems for a single nutrient.

"It is broken, venerable Sir".

"Here it is, venerable Sir".