There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me. ' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
People always say "pop culture. " As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense of the idea of a plurality of distinct individuals. We can only distinguish things as different if they occupy different regions of space-time. It follows (a point Kant missed but which the mystics have always understood) that reality 'in itself' is 'beyond plurality' and is, in that sense, 'One'.
Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.
I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.
When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.