It is difficult now to discern a coherent pattern.

But how can we distinguish good banks from bad?

But that is where the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas comes into play.

Second, it is essential to distinguish between existing and potential terrorists.

Here, too, it is not difficult to discern the broad outlines of a solution.

We must also maintain a distinction between acts of terrorism and the right of peoples fighting for self determination.

It is important to distinguish between two sources of concern about pay in financial firms.

Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

A shift of relative strategic influence and strength is discernible, especially given the rise of India and China.

Distinctive Welsh institutions, apart from those concerned with the Welsh language, are difficult to identify.

It is important to distinguish such problems from those that cannot, in principle, be solved.

It s important to distinguish four distinct phases of outside help to end a conflict.

We must make a distinction between fiscal deficits related to current expenditures and investment spending.

In order to design effective remedies, it is useful to distinguish among three types of failures that impede financial market functioning.

Just as we have learned to distinguish between governments as shareholders and as regulators which must be done carefully, because the actions of one do not necessarily coincide with the interests of the other today we must distinguish between governments as borrowers and as financial regulators.

We must differentiate legitimate debt from illegitimate debt, which means taking the problem before the World Court in The Hague.

COPENHAGEN It is difficult to distinguish the consequences from the causes of the corruption that bedevils many Latin American and Caribbean nations.

Likewise, France witnessed riots in Vaux en Velin, near Lyon, 20 years ago. So it is important to distinguish what is common to many developed countries and what is specific to France.

Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, but it is important to distinguish the goal from the means used to attain it.

But we are not careful enough to distinguish situations in which equilibrium restoring forces are strong from those in which such forces are weak.

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY We are so surrounded by gadgetry nowadays that it is sometimes hard to tell where devices end and people begin.

Nevertheless, in advance of November s presidential election, it is important to distinguish the forces that have shaped Barack Obama s foreign policy, and to assess his handling of them.

To answer that question, it is important to distinguish between two issues that have become conflated in public debate electronic espionage against foreign entities and domestic surveillance of a government s own citizens.

Indeed, I believe that things are even worse as long as aggregate demand remains low, we cannot even tell which pieces are right side up.

But it should be easy at least for an average parrot to tell whether a fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply or a shortage of demand.

Second, it is essential to distinguish between existing and potential terrorists. Existing terrorists need to be stopped before they act failing that, societies need to protect themselves and have ready the means of reducing the consequences of successful attacks.

Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear if more fragile than expected winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.

So how are we to distinguish between true and false propositions in economics? Perhaps the dividing line should be drawn between propositions that hold only if people expect them to be true and those that are true irrespective of beliefs.

In considering which lessons of Germany s turnaround should be applied to other eurozone countries, one must distinguish between what government can do and what remains the responsibility of business, workers, and society at large.