The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

For some time the Communists honored the distinction between the Soviet zone of Germany and the Soviet sector of Berlin by promulgating separately the laws for the two areas.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

But in any event, full credit should be given to the Cost Section for its express and overt recognition of a vital distinction too often ignored in utility-cost analyses: namely, that between a cost allocation designed to reflect the actual behavior of costs in response to changes in rates of output of different classes of utility service ; ;

We turn now to a type of fully distributed cost analysis which, unlike the `` railroad type '', draws no distinction between cost allocation and cost apportionment: the single-step type.

With the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

and when this is done it will be found that the principles governing Christian resistance cut across the distinction between violent and non-violent means, and apply to both alike, justifying either on occasion and always limiting either action.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ).

It is even said that the distinction between self and other is part of the root cause of our suffering.

In discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity.

A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

He had opened the door to technological awards, but had not left instructions on how to deal with the distinction between science and technology.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

In Italy a distinction was made in older times between the sonata da chiesa ( church sonata ), written in fugal style, and the sonata da camera ( chamber sonata ) which was really a suite mixed with sonata elements, not derived from the dance.

Polish economist Michał Kalecki emphasized the centrality of the distinction of stocks and flows, caustically calling economics " the science of confusing stocks with flows " in his critique of the quantity theory of money ( circa 1936, frequently quoted by Joan Robinson ).

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

the first science-fiction novel in the Shona language, which also holds the distinction of being the first novel in the Shona language to appear as an ebook first before it came out in print.

It has the distinction for a parody of having been continuously in print since it was first published.

While heated debates about the relationship between photography and art continued in print and in lecture halls, the distinction between a photographic image and a painting became more and more difficult to discern.

It may not be intuitive to new users that a printer that is ready but offline does not print, and while being able to take the printer off line ( effectively disconnecting it from the computer ) without shutting it down can be very useful, this distinction may appear as an extra complication to users who want to casually use the printer merely as an information appliance.

The appellate court held that trade secrets do not, by themselves, categorically transcend freedom of the press, that there is no relevant legal distinction between journalistic blogging online and traditional print journalism with regard to the shield law, and that Apple's attempt to subpoena the email service provider of one of the journals was a violation of the U. S. federal law known as the Stored Communications Act.

Åbo Underrättelser holds the distinction of being the oldest newspaper still in print in Finland, having been founded by Christian Ludvig Hjelt in 1823 ( the first edition being published on January 3, 1824 ).

Edition sizes higher than about 500 are likely to be of print reproductions of paintings, of much less value, though some modern techniques blur this traditional distinction.

Nonetheless, the historical distinction between " law " and " equity " remains important today when the case involves issues such as the following:

Sun distinguishes between its Software Development Kit ( SDK ) and Runtime Environment ( JRE ) ( a subset of the SDK ); the primary distinction involves the JRE's lack of the compiler, utility programs, and header files.

A classical example of the distinction between theoretical and practical uses the discipline of medicine: medical theory involves trying to understand the causes and nature of health and sickness, while the practical side of medicine is trying to make people healthy.

This distinction disappears with the approximant, since labialization involves adding of a labial approximant articulation to a sound, and this ambiguous situation is often called labiovelar.

One widespread distinction, found in English and many other languages, involves a simple two-way number contrast between singular and plural ( car / cars, child / children, etc .).

Another important distinction involves the contrast between nouns marked as proximate and those marked as obviative.

Many have recognized that a major theme of The Diamond Age involves a distinction between Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) and human intelligence, with AI being depicted in the novel as having failed in its goal of creating software capable of passing the Turing Test.

Practical or outward holiness for Oneness believers involves certain " holiness standards " that dictate, among other things, modest apparel and gender distinction.

The distinction lies in what is observed at the trough of ventilation: Cheyne-Stokes respiration involves apnea ( since apnea is a prominent feature in their original description ) while periodic breathing involves hypopnea ( abnormally small but not absent breaths ).

A somewhat oversimplified, but useful distinction between concertato and concerto can be made: the concertato style involves contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments: the concerto style, especially as it developed into the concerto grosso later in the Baroque, involves contrast between large and small groups of similar composition ( later called " ripieno " and " concertino ").

This distinction is not always straightforward since part of visual memory involves spatial information and vice versa.

The process by which genres are established always involves the human need for distinction and interrelation.

Resolution and localization True resolution involves the distinction whether a target, e. g. a star or a spectral line, is single or double, ordinarily requiring separable peaks in the image.

In 1965 Ernst Mayr cited Pittendrigh and criticized the last few words cited above for not making a “ clear distinction between the two teleologies of Aristotle ”; evolution involves Aristotle's material causes and formal causes rather than efficient causes.

One classification system involves the distinction between calcium-independent CAMs and calcium-dependent CAMs.

" Nevertheless, these two expression of high regard differ fundamentally: " excellentia " is a distinction among many, and implies comparison ; while " perfectio " involves no comparison, and if something is deemed perfect, then it is deemed so in itself, without comparison to other things.