Sentences with phrase «less of a distinction»

And I think the side A / B distinction artificial as these «sides» aren't uniform or alone, and there is probably less of a distinction between than within some days.

Still, teaching is a very important part of his professional mix, and there's less of a distinction between teaching and research than in most academic posts.

Lesbian couples are likely to make less of a distinction between which parent earns money and which cares for children.

Not exact matches

Chris Gibson, executive director of the federally funded Oregon - Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said the distinction matters less than the fact that marijuana continues to leave Oregon on planes, trains and automobiles, and through the mail.

We're not including any computers with macOS on this list because there aren't any that would fall under the «budget laptop» distinction of costing $ 500 or less.

Carcillo made the distinction that for quick - serve restaurants, where smaller transactions may lessen the severity of chargebacks, enabling the acceptance of EMV payments is less of a concern.

Honor Roll, a distinction given to less than 10 percent of companies named an Inc. 5000 company.

If you had seen the announcement of the Idler Academy's Bad Grammar Awards in Britain, you could have predicted what would turn up: the less / fewer distinction, it's / its, homonym confusions, errant apostrophes.

In most corporations, less - than - 20 % ownership positions are unimportant (perhaps, in part, because they prevent maximization of cherished reported earnings) and the distinction between accounting and economic results we have just discussed matters little.

From then on, the distinction between Williams and Forché seemed less one of medium and more one of maturity and raw energy.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

But I think we have risen above this distinction and can recognize in the activity of the painter and the sculptor, no less than in that of the poet and the dancer, the emancipation from the «deadliness of doing» that distinguishes art from «work.»

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

Theologians had become both over-assertive and over-sensitive to error since the challenge of Protestantism, and many Catholics among the educated, formed in a deep rut that allowed no distinction between doctrine and common theological opinion, found their faith hardly less troubled than did their non-Catholic brethren.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

In any case, this distinction between the given and The Given is anticipated in the correspondence, as seen in Brightman's willingness to admit some degree of «faintness» in the given.40 The real difference may lie in Brightman's methodological desire to have the self (and what is given to and as the self, the shining present) clearly defined, while Hartshorne insists that not only the self, but also the given «is more or less vague,» and must be so.

But Hartshorne, as his career progressed became less and less willing to use the term monad,» and he accepted Fechner's distinction between the two types of panpsychism (or «psychicalism,» as Hartshorne came to prefer): the «monadic,» which he associates with Leibniz and rejects, and the «synechological» which he associates with Fechner's view and is willing to accept with some qualifications.

If I am right about the distinction for which I am feeling here, then although the enduring influence of his mind - set is more or less ensured since he became pope, his writings might slip from view.

It is not an exaggeration to say there is no way the writer would say something like, «Such - and - such college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liability.

In Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science, the distinction between theory and observation is less absolute than for these other authors.

In regarding mental illness as symptomatic of the diseased general condition of humankind, faith relativizes the simplistically absolute distinction between the sick and the well, and calls attention to a deeper, less obvious level of selfhood.

The former distinction mentioned above — that between lower and higher levels of individuals — suggests that the habits of the higher - level ones will be less binding, so that as scientists move to increasingly higher levels, the laws will become increasingly imprecise, gradually becoming what some would prefer to call mere «generalizations.»

Here we observe at least a certain analogy to the «immortality of the soul», but the distinction remains none the less radical.

As per Tocqueville's distinction, the patriotism I'm talking about is more of the organic kind, less so of the reflective kind.

The purpose of this distinction is to distinguish the nascent, deviant, augmentative, or spoliative character of a complex from its sphere of dominance while at the same time consigning neither to the status of lesser reality.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

Among Americans there are, in fact, many distinctions, that are differences of greater or lesser degree, between «us» and «them»» economic, racial, educational, political, cultural, religious.

Does his view assume the validity of a distinction in a historical source between its possibly universally true «kernel» and its historically conditioned and limited «husk,» with the implied promise that we can extract the more or less widely pertinent kernel from its time - bound husk?

The line of distinction here is very vague, for theology may extend itself into questions of less and less obviously critical importance for man's existence.

Buffalo Trace Distillery was named a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 2013, sharing this distinction with less than 3,000 other properties in the United States.

Giggs served Man United with distinction between 1990 and 2014, racking up 963 appearances for the club and scoring 168 goals, in the process collecting a host of honours including no less than 13 Premier League title wins.

there's a fine line between context and homeric excuses, but I think Harbaugh is still on the right side of that distinction — albeit with less and less (and less) of a cushion.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

Instead, prosecutors told Copani before the meeting that the men were considered «subjects» of the investigation, a distinction that implied they were much less likely to be charged.

If used with caution, fully aware of its limitations, drawing the distinctions no less than the similarities entailed in the two cases under discussion, it can certainly help in elucidating a new reality.

He said: «The sadness of George Osborne is that he is a formidably able man, he served with distinction as chancellor of the exchequer, and has decided since leaving Parliament to emulate a rather less successful Edward Heath.»

â $ œI think it is misleading to make a distinction that income earned through sweat and work is less of a value and less important than income earned through investment, â $ he said.

Localities would earn this dubious distinction if their reserves represent less than 5 percent of their operating budgets if their tax rates rank among the state's top quartile.

«Some of them are actually codified rules changes and some of them are cultural changes, which aren't less important but I want to make a distinction,» Williams said.

The community of science must come to embrace the (rather obvious) fact that the future of science lies with the young, who tend to care less about disciplinary distinctions than their more calcified elders.

When you have less distinction between haves and have - nots, a lot of terrorism will end.

Waste from neighboring drains would also turn up less of a variety of foods, revealing a socioeconomic distinction between neighbors.

The «t» sounds in the words «tea,» «tree,» and «but,» for instance, might be classified as separate phones, but a speech recognition system has to transcribe all of them using the letter «t.» And indeed, Belinkov and Glass found that lower levels of the network were better at recognizing phones than higher levels, where, presumably, the distinction is less important.

A key distinction between words and nonwords was that nonwords contained pairs of letters that occur together less frequently in English.

Carlos Sluzki, the owner of the shadow cat and a cross-cultural researcher at George Mason University, suggests that in cultures of non-European origin the distinction between «in here» and «out there» experiences is less strictly defined, and so grief hallucinations may not be considered so personally worrying.

By ruling that there is not enough evidence of «currently accepted medical use» — a key distinction between the highly restrictive Schedule I classification and the less restrictive Schedule II — the administration essentially makes it harder to gather such evidence.

Similarly, any arrangement of inhibitory neurons that doesn't observe the distinction between convergence and stability neurons will be less efficient than one that does.

This distinction is held by less than one half of one percent of all publishing scientific authors.

Even less is known about the assembly of the neural net within the mouse olfactory system, which, in the end, enables the individual to distinguish one smell from another with astonishing specificity and to remember such distinctions over time.