6 sentences with 'distinction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distinction and other words derived from it.
• « Distributed in Germany, they were read by Adolf Hitler, who gave Ford the sad distinction of being the only American mentioned approvingly in Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). »
• « What, according to Aristotle, is the distinction between involuntary and non-voluntary acts, Miss Rosenberg? »
• « In such a case, the traitors may be men of obvious distinction... like Arne Treholt, the Norwegian who is currently in prison as retribution for his work for the KGB. »
• « Traditional history made a hard and fast distinction between Western civilisation as the locus of progress, and the rest of the world (usually called the "East", meaning simply "east", until textbooks began to change their terms in the 1980s) which invariably lagged behind. »
• « Mesopotamia has the distinction of being the first place on earth where the development of agriculture led to the emergence of the essential technologies of civilisation. »
• « Then, in 550 BCE, a Persian leader, Cyrus II the Great, led the Persians against the Medes and conquered them (in practice, there was little distinction between the two groups, since they were so closely related and similar; the Greeks often confused them when writing about them). »