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Example sentences for "distinguish between"

  • Roots consisting of more than one syllable can always be proved to be derivative roots, and even among monosyllabic roots it is necessary to distinguish between primitive, secondary, and tertiary roots.

  • Nor is it necessary to distinguish between synthetic and analytical languages, including under the former name the ancient, and under the latter the modern, languages of the inflectional class.

  • But in the drama, the layman often finds it difficult to distinguish between a piece intended merely for immediate entertainment and a piece that incorporates the Intention of Permanence.

  • Likewise, on a larger scale, the layman habitually fails to distinguish between a mere theatric entertainment and a genuine drama.

  • If such an elementary distinction as that between verse and prose was in this case inaudible to cultivated ears, how much harder must it be for the average audience to distinguish between a good phrase and a bad!

  • In particular he almost always fails to distinguish between what is really a character and what is merely an acting part.

  • It is therefore necessary, in order to prevent equivocation and confounding natures perfectly disagreeing and unlike, that we distinguish between spirit and idea.

  • In the same manner we ought in future to distinguish between a guttural sonant check, g, frequently palatalized in the Southeastern Branch (Sk.

  • With regard to them it becomes still clearer how impossible it would be to distinguish between datives of abstract nouns, and other grammatical forms, to be called infinitives.

  • Logically, no doubt, it is possible to distinguish between a root as a mere postulate, and a root used as an actual word.

  • Therefore it is of the utmost importance that the medical jurist should be able to distinguish between ante-mortem and post-mortem ecchymoses.

  • It is very easy from the foregoing to distinguish between a wound inflicted before death and one ten or twelve hours after death.

  • They are so evident as not to require detailed mention; but much care in such cases is necessary to distinguish between disease, decay, and violence, and artefacta.

  • He goes on to distinguish between justice of men or manners, and justice of actions; whereby in the one case men are just or righteous, and in the other, guiltless.

  • We are to distinguish between what is peculiar to each of us, and what we share with humanity.

  • Distinguish between a confederacy and an empire.

  • Distinguish between a nation, a government, and a state.

  • Distinguish between the faith of the Church, the organization of the Church, and the Church as a force in history.

  • There is this difference between the category of existence and the categories of relation, namely, that it would seem to be impossible to distinguish between a determinate and an indeterminate application of it.

  • Though Kant's insistence upon the conscious character of understanding compels him to distinguish between it and the imagination, he has also to recognise their kinship.

  • Distinguish between a revenue and a protective tariff.

  • Distinguish between the "old" and the "new" immigration.

  • Distinguish between a specific and an ad valorem duty.

  • It is difficult to distinguish between aliquis and aliqui, nescio quis and nescio qui, si quis and si qui (for the latter see n.

  • As it stands in the text the doctrine is absurd, for surely it must always be easier to distinguish between two genera than between two individuals.

  • And, indeed, this hope is already assured to us in the fact that the faculty has begun to criticise itself, to distinguish between an erroneous and a true form of its-operation.

  • It might, perhaps, be desirable to go further in this process of differentiating language, and to distinguish between a sensational image, e.

  • The sentimentality which is unable to distinguish between a legitimate mercy, and the mercy to the individual which amounts to the worst of cruelty to many others, is, indeed, a continual danger to society and a hindrance to useful reforms.

  • In all cases of this kind it is important to distinguish between a man's personal acts, and his official ones.

  • For he is careful to distinguish between what he thus knows (that Christ had a Body after His Resurrection) and what he merely believes (that He has one now).

  • But it is doubtful whether any of Christ's miracles were of such a kind, for St. Paul is careful to distinguish between gifts of healing and working of miracles.

  • It is often necessary to distinguish between fabrics of cotton, linen, silk and wool, and in such cases the microscopical appearance of the fibres is invaluable as a preliminary test.

  • Cases in which it is necessary to distinguish between iron-gall writing inks and printing or other carbon inks occur from time to time in criminal investigations.

  • In order to distinguish between a carbon ink of this nature and an ordinary writing ink all that is necessary is to apply a dilute bleaching agent.

  • Bartolus and Baldus said that damnum emergens and lucrum cessans were divided by a very narrow line, and that it was often difficult to distinguish between them.

  • All that it is sought to do is to distinguish between them; and to demonstrate that, whatever be the merits or demerits of the two philosophies, they are two, and not one.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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