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Additional Bush Administration "Distinctions" - Early Corruption Scandals to Today's Economy in Disarray
Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration 2008
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It contained 147 "Distinctions" (questions; cases of church policy), upon each of which were cited the church canons and the views and decisions of important church authorities.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Distinctions between homegrown and foreign terrorists are blurred when a U.S. citizen travels to Pakistan to learn bomb-making from a known terrorist organization, then returns to the U.S. and receives financial backing from the overseas organization.
Would-be Times Square bomber gets life in prison Jerry Markon 2010
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Distinctions matter: legal, illegal; temporary, permanent; foreigner, US citizen.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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"There is no longer a major cultural divide between 'elite' high culture and popular culture," said Mike Savage, professor of Sociology at the University of York and author of Class, Culture and Distinctions.
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April 17, 2009 at 3: 05 pm social capital was originally the concept of the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, see eg. his book Distinctions
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My point was — try to read this slowly, I will use simple words and short sentences: Distinctions matter.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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Distinctions that determine greater and lesser value, distinctions that discern the difference between that which is lower and that which is higher.
Andrew Z. Cohen: Spirit Is Higher Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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Distinctions matter: legal/illegal; permanent/temporary; foreigner/citizen.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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Distinctions that determine greater and lesser value, distinctions that discern the difference between that which is lower and that which is higher.
Andrew Z. Cohen: Spirit Is Higher Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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