6 sentences with 'distinctions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distinctions and other words derived from it.
• « He drew legal distinctions between "free men" or aristocratic citizens, commoners and slaves, treating the same crimes very differently. »
• « The early Christians did not recognise any social distinctions, which was fundamentally at odds with the entire Roman system, which depended on formal legal separations between social classes and a rigid system of social hierarchy. »
• « Over time, Germanic rulers blended with their subjects to the point where distinctions between them were non-existent. »
• « Very quickly, however, the theory of evolution was taken over as a justification for both rigid class distinctions and racism. »
• « Unemployment soared and the distinctions between legitimate business and illegal or extra-legal trade all but disappeared. »
• « I am a Muslim and my wife is a Serb. Are they going to establish a border in the middle of our bed? It is the extremists who try to impose laws on us based on ethnic distinctions. »