She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

I purposely refrained from adding the usual distinction of saying that he was from the State of Texas.

He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;

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

I was at least conscious of the distinction in my full Yokuts presentation that awaits publication, in which, in listing ' Two-Stem Meanings ', I set off by asterisks those forms in which N of stem B was Af of stem A/3, the unasterisked ones standing for Af ; ;

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.

He was heralded as `` Sportsman of the Year '' by Sports Illustrated, and last night was acclaimed in Rochester as the `` Professional Athlete of the Year '', a distinction that earned for him the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt.

`` I did not perceive this essential distinction either, First-Born '', Hesperus said at once, `` I was only practicing a concept that Jack taught me, called a deal ''.

" 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 ).

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

Much of the distinction between the differing factions was over the phrasing that Christ expressed in the New Testament to express submission to God the Father.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

For the first time a conceptual and procedural distinction was made between laws and decrees.

Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

There was a distinction between the two sets of Aediles when it came to public festivals.

Although this distinction was blurred by the 19th century arrival of the railway.

At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination of the University of Copenhagen with distinction, after receiving dispensation to take it because he was younger than the usual minimum age.

Recent research on Irenaeus, however, makes it evident that he does not consistently maintain this distinction.

As evident by its name, I – O psychology has historically subsumed two broad areas of study that investigate the nature of the person ( individual-differences psychology ) and the nature of the situation or context ( social psychology ), although this distinction is artificial, as many topics in I-O psychology are informed by both of these general areas.

A separate distinction is evident where the rights granted are insufficiently substantial to confer on the nonowner a definable interest or right in the thing.

Some of Shepherd's critics contend that the concept of a works principle distinct from a Covenant of Grace is evident in the commentaries and dogmatic works of the earliest covenant theologians, particularly in the distinction made between Law and Gospel ( for instance, Zacharias Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism ).

Like the distinction between Europe and Asia, the difference between Klatch and the unnamed continent that Ankh-Morpork stands upon is arbitrary and cultural rather than geographically evident.

Although the distinction between hardware and software CGs is becoming less evident as technology advances, and as consumer-grade computing equipment becomes more graphically sophisticated, it remains easiest to view CG's as either hardware-or software-dependent.

The distinction between a code point and the corresponding abstract character is not pronounced in Unicode, but is evident for many other encoding schemes, where numerous code pages may exist for a single code space.

Modern English translations make a distinction ; but it is not easily evident from the LXX and the Vulgate that, apart from a couple of instances, render both Hebrew ṣin and sîn as " Sin ".

The toasts vary by group, and some groups make a distinction between a " regular " sumbel and a " high " sumbel, which have different levels of formality, and different rules during toasting.

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

The Bornholmian dialect has also maintained to this day many ancient features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders, which the central Insular Danish dialects gave up during the 20th century.

The Church Father Epiphanius ( writing in the 4th century CE ) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes: " Of those that came before his an Ossaean prophet time and during it, the Ossaeans and the Nazarean .".

Ethiopia's military victory over Italy, obtained also with Russian support, secured it the distinction of being the only African nation to successfully resist European colonialism during the Scramble for Africa.

A basic distinction is with regard to whether the speaker looks at a situation as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during the situation (" I ate "), or with no reference to temporal bounds but with reference to the nature of the flow of time during the situation (" I was eating ", " I used to eat ").

Iraq holds a special distinction in the history of geography: a clay tablet generally accepted as " the earliest known map " was unearthed in 1930 during the excavation of Ga-Sur at Nuzi Yorghan Tepe, near the towns of Harran and Kirkuk, north of the site of Babylon.

Thailand and Japan share the distinction of never having lost sovereignty during the Colonial period.

In 1986, during a House floor debate over whether the United States should host the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Kemp proclaimed: " I think it is important for all those young out there — who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands — a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

The noticeable uniformity in the size of houses at Emporeio leads some scholars to believe that there may have been little social distinction during the Neolithic era on the island.

Ford's increased influence during the 1990s allowed Mazda to claim another distinction in history, having maintained the first foreign-born head of a Japanese car company, Henry Wallace.

It is important to note that the distinction between samurai and non-samurai was so obscure that during the 16th century, most male adults in any social class ( even small farmers ) belonged to at least one military organization of their own and served in wars before and during Hideyoshi's rule.

Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason, who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study — five of his 45 classmates earned a similar distinction.

The distinction between the spiritual and the religious became more common in the popular mind during the late 20th century with the rise of secularism and the advent of the New Age movement.

However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.

Pujol had the distinction of being one of the few people – if there were any others – during World War II to receive decorations from both sides, gaining both an Iron Cross from the Germans and an MBE from the British.

The Nazis never realised they had been fooled, and thus Pujol earned the distinction of being one of the few – if there were any others – during World War II to receive decorations from both sides.

This distinction is given to the song tallying the most feature US broadcast performances during the eligibility period.

This distinction lost importance as manual switching declined during the 20th century.

The distinction is made during the water deprivation test, as some degree of urinary concentration above isosmolar is usually obtained before the patient becomes dehydrated.

The distinction became particularly pointed and controversial during the Early Modern witch-hunts, with some authors such as Johannes Hartlieb denouncing all magical practice as blasphemous, while others portrayed natural magic as not sinful.

The clinical distinction between measles and smallpox was described during this time.