distinguished

• “The term distinguished is predicable indeed of each of the members, but of each in a different sense.”

  Deductive Logic

• “The term distinguished between God’s ordination of Israel for unstated reasons of His own—reasons which the Jews spent millennia trying to parse—and, on the other hand, a clear destiny that Americans could readily perceive—our geography, our system of government, our generosity and natural bounty.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Chosen Peoples

• “In 1949, Vice President Alben W. Barkley became the first office, holder to receive the medal, and since then, Congress has recognized only what it described as the distinguished service of Democratic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas, and Democratic senators Robert E Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey.”

  Newsweek: A Gold Medal For Ol' Blue Eyes?

• “Capacity to identify, attract, and retain distinguished faculty.”

  Discourse.net: Admit It, After Reading This You Want to be Our Dean

• “The physical orientation, the Congregation says, must be distinguished from the spiritual.”

  Ignatius Insight Article on Restoring Ad Orientem

• “I also think that the authority of each is easily sustained by cases, such as NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel, that can be distinguished from the individual mandate.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » A Better Question

• “The financial crisis (which TARP likely helped to remedy) needs to be sharply distinguished from the economic crisis (which the $850 billion, so-called “stimulus” package has likely served to make matters worse).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “Lessons From the Financial Crisis”:

• “So that the new lighter-weight quarters could be easily distinguished from the previous issues an arrowhead was added to each side of the obverse date, and rays extending outward from the eagle were added to the reverse.”

  Liberty Seated Quarter, Arrows, 1854-1855 : Coin Guide

• “This is a traditional fantasy, but it feels modern without the explicit content that a lot of authors abuse to try and make their book distinguished from the genre classics (and the dross).”

  The ULTIMATE (and somewhat bloated) Best Of 2008 List [part 7] - THE RoSF LIST

• “Its use in Texas is very common — the Jurat is the short paragraph for a notary to acknowledge an affidavit, where the signatory is swearing or affirming the contents; it is distinguished from a simple Acknowledgement, where a Notary affirms that the person in fact signed an instrument (like a Deed, Deed of Trust, Release, etc.).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Jurat

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