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 mathematics, a careful distinction is made between the sphere ( a two-dimensional surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space ) and the ball ( the interior of the three-dimensional sphere ).

There is a key distinction between extrinsic curvature, which is defined for objects embedded in another space ( usually a Euclidean space ) in a way that relates to the radius of curvature of circles that touch the object, and intrinsic curvature, which is defined at each point in a Riemannian manifold.

There is a distinction between the embedded energy of materials and constructing the landscape, and the energy consumed by the maintenance and operations of a landscape.

A primary division for the discussion of clauses is the distinction between main clauses (= matrix clauses, independent clauses ) and subordinate clauses (= embedded clauses, dependent clauses ).

A systematic distinction in word order emerges across matrix wh-clauses, which can have VS order, and embedded wh-clauses, which always maintain SV order, e. g.

" According to Berlin, the distinction is deeply embedded in the political tradition.

This distinction is rapidly becoming less relevant, as several of the latest FPGA products also offer models with embedded configuration memory.

Currently, the main distinction which causes one to speak of CAAD rather than CAD lies in the domain knowledge ( architecture-specific objects, techniques, data, and process support ) embedded in the system.

Noam Chomsky, teaching linguistics to students of information theory at MIT, combined linguistics and mathematics, by taking what is essentially Thue's formalism as the basis for the description of the syntax of natural language ; he also introduced a clear distinction between generative rules ( those of context-free grammars ) and transformation rules ( 1956 ).

This distinction simplifies the global description of the thalamus.

In his description of the Eucharist, Pachasius drew a distinction between figura ( figure ) and veritas ( truth ), which he understood to mean “ outward appearance ” and “ what faith teaches ” respectively.

The description of scattering and the distinction between single and multiple scattering are often highly involved with wave – particle duality.

The distinction between a description and a name has sometimes caused confusion.

Woolf blurs the distinction between direct and indirect speech throughout the novel, freely alternating her mode of narration between omniscient description, indirect interior monologue, and soliloquy.

Thus the view that the sense-reference distinction solves the problem of empty names encourages the view that a sense is an individuating description ( which could be understood with or without a reference satisfying it ).

Avoidant and schizoid patterns were frequently confused or referred to synonymously until Kretschmer ( 1921 ), in providing the first relatively complete description, developed a distinction.

The above description and distinction between " Adhesive wear " and its Counterpart " cohesive adhesive forces " are quite common.

Communism either destroys wholesome emulation and competition, or else it fixes too high a price upon distinction, and must eventually end in the worst description of despotism.

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 ).

Proponents use the latter most often as a point of comparison as the concept of " Turkic " is not a true racial or ethnic description but more of a linguistic and cultural distinction.

According to Keith Donnellan, there are two distinct ways we may use a definite description such as " the current Emperor of Germany is gray ", and thus makes his distinction between the referential and the attributive use of a definite description.

The contents of her work in this time, including a focus on a distinction of predictability and causality, are known from three of her own publications, and from later description of their discussions by von Weizsäcker, and the discussion of Hermann's work in chapter ten of Heisenberg's The Part and The Whole.

This distinction between description and name was and remains important because the Act was not a constitutional amendment and did not change the name of the state.

The distinction between a description and a name has sometimes caused confusion.

NYPL Digital Gallery, according to the project description, " helps to fulfill the traditional mission of The New York Public Library to select, collect, preserve and make accessible ' the accumulated wisdom of the world, without distinction as to income, religion, nationality, or other human condition.

The distinction between " Zhongguo " and " Zhonghua " ( 中国 and 中華 ) for " China " or " Chinese " is that the former refers to a political entity while the latter is a cultural description, although this often confuses foreigners who do not understand Mandarin.

The only known contemporary ethnical description of Brodnici (" Bordinians ") is by Byzantian chronicler Niketas Choniates in his History, who describes them as a branch of " Tauroscythians ," and this term he seems to apply to the Rus people drawing a distinction of them from Turkic Polovtsians and from Vlachs.

The main distinction between the Victoria Cross and the Cross of Valour is the specific reference to " the enemy ", which the Canadian government has defined as a force hostile towards the Canadian Crown, including armed mutineers, rebels, rioters, and pirates, meaning that the Queen-in-Council does not officially have to declare war to give acknowledgement of the existence of a hostile force that fits the official description.

Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between " knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description " and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike.

The graphic and gritty description of the Filipino town Bibalonan shocked the readers into realizing its distinction.

They are seldom used for the description of other languages, even though a distinction between vowels that usually have to be followed by a consonant and those that do not have to is common in most Germanic languages.