Example sentences of "distinct from that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , Flew claims that the idea of ‘ open competition for scarce opportunities ’ is less ambiguous than that of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ ; that it is , in our metaphor , a level piece of ground rather than a slippery slope ; and that it is clearly distinct from that of absolute equality of outcome . |
| 2 | That is , in brief , it is reasonable to suppose that their nature , as distinct from that of effects , is to be explained by their membership of causal circumstances . |
| 3 | ‘ In the undoubted progress realized in the eighteenth century ’ , writes Vilar , ‘ was implicit a relationship between the various regions of the Peninsula quite distinct from that of the siglo de oro . |
| 4 | Harappan sites have yielded gold objects mainly in the form of personal trinkets in the context of a metallurgical industry distinct from that of Sumer . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 6 | In my judgment the principle established by the authorities to which I have referred ( other than the Manchester Corporation case [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 ) is that any corporation , whether trading or non-trading , which can show that it has a corporate reputation ( as distinct from that of its members ) which is capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , can sue in libel to protect that reputation , in the same way as can a natural person , although there will of course be certain types of statement which can not defame an artificial person . |
| 7 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 8 | Studies based on WFS statistics indicate that the pattern of relationships mirrors that noted above in respect to mother 's education , and that the effect is distinct from that of father 's occupation . |
| 9 | The rate at which social change is accomplished and the role of violence in political life raise questions which are conceptually distinct from that of revolutionary change and need to be examined independently . |
| 10 | Weber 's approach to the state was quite distinct from that of the Marxist tradition , although the thrust of our argument will be that it can be usefully combined with this tradition . |
| 11 | There was , therefore , a special mentality about the small businessman , one quite distinct from that of either the working class or the manager of a large organisation , and one which corresponded with the ideology of a master race . |
| 12 | Normal British children form a population whose range of DUAOs is similar to that in normochlorhydric adults but distinct from that of ahclorhydric adults . |
| 13 | A distinguishing feature of spinning when put out to the cottage women and children was that it created the possibility of increasing the money earnings of the family from an occupation distinct from that of the man . |