And the action is consistently presented with regard for this distinction.

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

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

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.

But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student's approach as distinctly his own.

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.

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.

As a result, although we still make use of this distinction, there is much confusion as to the meaning of the basic terms employed.

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.

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.

It is this distinction between producing a written work and producing the interpretation or meaning in a written work that both Barthes and Foucault are interested in.

Another view defines anxiety as " a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events ," suggesting that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.

In digital images there is a subtle distinction between the Display Aspect Ratio ( the image as displayed ) and the Storage Aspect Ratio ( the ratio of pixel dimensions ); see distinctions, below.

It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

The distinction between organic and inorganic disciplines is not absolute and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.

The distinction between organic and inorganic disciplines is not absolute and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.

The distinction between the two disciplines is far from absolute, and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.

Hegel's absolute idealism blurs the distinction between existence and thought: our mortal nature places limits on our understanding of reality ;

The distinction between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters is not absolute, however.

That theory was brought to a focus on the question of whether man exists for the sake of government, or government for the sake of man – a distinction which may derive from, or lead to, the question of natural and absolute rights, and whether property is one of them.

Although there is no absolute distinction between different areas of topology, the focus here is on general topology.

Today, the geographical distinction between Western and Eastern Christianity is not nearly as absolute, especially after the spread of missionaries.

Today, the geographical distinction between Western and Eastern Christianity is now much less absolute, due to the great migrations of Europeans across the globe, as well as the work of missionaries worldwide over the past five centuries.

In the general context of a G-valued series, a distinction is made between absolute and unconditional convergence, and the assertion that a real or complex series which is not absolutely convergent is necessarily conditionally convergent ( meaning not unconditionally convergent ) is then a theorem, not a definition.

Sometimes, however, people make an absolute distinction between a metonymy and a synecdoche, treating metonymy as different from, rather than inclusive of, synecdoche.

Some medieval Christian scholastics such as Bonaventure made a distinction between conscience as a rational faculty of the mind ( practical reason ) and inner awareness, an intuitive " spark " to do good, called synderesis arising from a remnant appreciation of absolute good and when consciously denied ( for example to perform an evil act ), becoming a source of inner torment.

" We firstly ask for the freedom of conscience or the freedom of full universal religion, without distinction as without privilege ; and by consequence, in what touches us, we Catholics, for the total separation of church and state ... this necessary separation, without which there would exist for Catholics no religious freedom, implies, for a part, the suppression of the ecclesiastical budget, and we have fully recognized this ; for another part, the absolute independence of the clergy in the spiritual order ... Just as there can be nothing religious today in politics there must be nothing political in religion.

There is no absolute distinction that separates " high " and " low " time preference, only comparisons with others either individually or in aggregate.

However, the absolute distinction belongs to the jail house in Rodney, Ontario, which measures just 4. 5 m by 5. 4 m ( 24. 3 m < sup > 2 </ sup >).

The distinction between allegory and ' real-life ' in Piers is by no means absolute, and the entire passage, as Wendy Scase observes, is suspiciously reminiscent of the ' false confession ' tradition in medieval literature ( represented elsewhere by the Confessio Goliae and by Fals-Semblaunt in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose ).

For the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, making a real distinction between " the heavenly and invisible Church, alone true and absolute ", and " the earthly Church ( or rather " the churches ") imperfect and relative " is a " Nestorian ecclesiology " and is thus deemed by both as heretical.

For the next 31 months, the regiment fought with absolute distinction through French North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany.

The remaining instruments, mainly brass, are associated with the Underworld, though there is not an absolute distinction ; strings appear on several occasions in the Hades scenes.

" The design was predicated on an absolute distinction between structure and enclosure — a regular grid of cruciform steel columns interspersed by freely spaced planes ".

Tacitus says that the Germans made a distinction between kings, who were chosen by birth, and military leaders, who were chosen by ability, and that kings did not have absolute power.

A distinction can be made between relative and absolute bodhicitta:

However, because the mimic may have a degree of protection itself, the distinction is not absolute.