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Example sentences for: distinction

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As a formal matter, Standard A mail in the United States is broken into two subclasses, one called Regular Standard A and the other called Enhanced Carrier Route Standard A. This paper will have some implications for this distinction, but will not focus specifically on it.
.. [t]he heaped-up precedents of the substantive [my italics] law swarm with trivia, with differences without substantive distinction, with repetitions that centuries ago attained the rank of platitude.
While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
Over the years, the new sound may acquire its own distinction: a dignified gentleman announcing Ahem! to gain attention, rather than actually clearing his throat, or someone cackling Yukkety yuk yuk! at a lousy joke.
The valley on the opposite side of the road, south of the pousada, is known as Serra de Água, and lays claim to the distinction of being the island’s first hydro-electric power station.