For a Mandarin speaker, to whom and are separate phonemes, the English distinction is much more obvious than it is to the English speaker who has learned since childhood to ignore it.

The town of Accrington thus has the unique " distinction " of having lost two separate clubs from league football.

Citizenship was not seen as a separate activity from the private life of the individual person, in the sense that there was not a distinction between public and private life.

" Discrimination " derives from Latin, where the verb discrimire ' means " to separate, to distinguish, to make a distinction ".

Unlike most Indian universities, Jadavpur University has the distinction of having three separate faculties of learning within its ambit — Arts, Engineering & Technology and Science.

Dharana is the beginning of concentration, usually on a single shape, like a triangle, which eventually leads to Dhyana, the loss of distinction between object and subject, which can be described as the annihilation of the ego ( or sense of a separate self ).

Item-and-Process theories, on the other hand, often break down in cases like these, because they all too often assume that there will be two separate rules here, one for third person, and the other for plural, but the distinction between them turns out to be artificial.

Nasal and oral vowels probably merged around the 11th c. in most of Old East Norse .< sup >: 3 </ sup > However, the distinction still holds in Dalarna .< sup >: 4 </ sup > The dots in the following vowel table separate the oral from nasal phonemes.

To take another example, the minimal pair tip and dip illustrates that in English, and belong to separate phonemes, and ; since these two words have different meanings, English speakers must be conscious of the distinction between the two sounds.

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.

The two leagues were once separate, rival corporate entities, but that distinction has all but disappeared.

Psychiatrist Paulette Gillig draws a distinction between an " ego state " ( behaviors and experiences possessing permeable boundaries with other such states but united by a common sense of self ) and the term " alters " ( each of which may have a separate autobiographical memory, independent initiative and a sense of ownership over individual behavior ) commonly used in discussions of DID.

For the most part in the American legal system, while the distinction between law and equity still has some legal consequences, separate court systems are not maintained at the federal level or in other states.

A distinction is made between joint possession ( Jason and Sue's e-mails: the e-mails of both Jason and Sue ), and separate possession ( Jason's and Sue's e-mails: both the e-mails of Jason and the e-mails of Sue ).

Groups that support Chinese reunification and Chinese nationalism have emphasized the distinction between Taiwanization and what some perceive as desinicization and argued that they do not oppose the promotion of a Taiwanese identity, but rather oppose the use of that identity to separate itself from a broader Chinese one.

Dutch legal doctrine believes in a clear distinction between efficiency and effectiveness reports and this is reflected in two separate types of investigation carried out.

Some languages have separate T and V forms for both singular and plural ; others have the same form ; others have a T – V distinction only in the singular.

Writing in AD 79, Pliny the Elder said that the Germanic tribes were members of separate groups of people, suggesting a distinction among them.

This need not imply that one's mind is all that exists, as with solipsism, but rather that the distinction between " I am " and " it is " is ultimately unnecessary, and a burden that, paradoxically, gives rise to an illusory sense of permanence and independence — that " separate " self which suffers and dies.

The earlier blurred distinction between them veiled their separate roles in shaping the wooden churches and hindered us from a clear understanding of the results.

In some OOP languages, like Java, the distinction is clear, with the classes often contained in library files ( like Java's JAR file format ) and the instantiated objects residing only in memory ( although potentially able to be made persistent in separate files ).

Thus, it holds the distinction of being the only city in Kentucky to have served as the county seat of three separate counties.

The Domesday Book 1086, which was a survey for taxation purposes, makes the first known distinction between the parishes of Great and Little Bookham, if it is assumed that there was no separate parish at the time of the charter of Edward the Confessor in 1062.

The LCMS does not believe ordination is divinely instituted or an extension of an episcopal form of apostolic succession but sees the office grounded in the Word and Sacrament ministry of the Gospel, arguing that Scripture makes no distinction between a presbyter ( priest ) and a bishop ( see Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, paragraphs 63, 64, citing St. Jerome ).

" The invidious distinction it drew between Presbyterians on the one hand, and Catholics, members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), other nonconformists, unbelievers, and Jews on the other, who were compelled to support a ministry they conscientiously disapproved, offended his conscience.

A distinction is typically made between graduate schools ( where courses of study do not provide training for a particular profession ) and professional schools, which offer specialized advanced degrees in professional fields such as medicine, business, engineering, ministry or law.

It has the unique distinction of having the Independent School status in 1988, a scheme that the ministry perceived had proven successful and was extended to other top schools in Singapore.

After practicing law with some distinction he entered the Episcopalian ministry in 1827 and proved a brilliant and impressive preacher, holding livings in New Haven, Philadelphia, New York City and New Orleans, and declining several bishoprics.

On 4 June 1882 he was appointed Austro-Hungarian ministry of finance and administrator of the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the distinction with which he filled this office, for a period of 21 years, is his chief title of fame.

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.