The distinction in usage between the two words is clear.

The distinction between inorganic and organic compounds is not always clear.

by ( the angels ) who make a clear distinction between right and wrong

A clear distinction must be made between au pairs and domestic staff.

But the picture is far from clear cut.

A clear distinction should be made between remuneration mechanisms for executive directors and non executive directors.

But there will be no clear cut change in policy direction.

The choices to be made are not simple, obvious, or clear cut.

It is still not clear what led Greenspan to support the tax cut.

The Narayan Murty Committee Report in India, for instance, makes a clear distinction between non executive and independent directors.

Yet we are still making a clear distinction between United Nations led operations and operations conducted by regional organizations.

We live in a world where the clear distinction between conflict among States and conflict within States has become blurred.

Once it became clear that the burden was unbearable, debt should have been cut expeditiously.

Civilizations do not have clear cut boundaries and borders, they flow smoothly into one another.

We can only wish that formulating economic policy were as clear cut as, say, mechanical engineering.

The division of responsibilities between them with regard to technical assistance, however, was insufficiently clear cut.

Both Estonian men and women share the view that there is a clear distinction between the so called men's and women's jobs .

A clear distinction would be maintained between the coordinating role of the mission and the implementation responsibilities of agencies, funds and programmes.

What Eady s judgment did accomplish was to highlight the crucial distinction, necessary for all clear thinking about privacy, between what interests the public and what is in the public interest. So how can this distinction be made effective?

( Through the resurrection ) God wants to make a clear distinction between right and wrong and make the unbelievers know that they were liars .

( Through the resurrection ) God wants to make a clear distinction between right and wrong and make the unbelievers know that they were liars .

At the same time, however, that reaction is much less uniform and clear cut than many observers believe.

The concepts of intelligence and of race are less clear cut than we often assume them to be.

It is important to make a clear distinction between gender mainstreaming and its goal, which is to support gender equality in UNDP human development work.

Making a clear distinction, in statistical publications, between statistical and analytical comments on the one hand and policy prescriptive and advocacy comments on the other

The answers to such questions would be obvious if the moral issues in the current financial crisis were clear cut.

The EU s eastern policy should not be seen as philanthropy, but as a strategy promoting clear cut pan European interests.

distinction since military operations are only to be conducted against the enemy's armed forces and military objectives, there must be a clear distinction between the armed forces and civilians and between objects that might be legitimately attacked and those that are protected from attack.

He made clear distinction between sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and drew attention to the poisonous nature of copper compounds, especially copper vitriol, and also lead compounds.

Principle of distinction

proportionality, and distinction.

So, why not let evidence, rather than theory, guide policy? Unfortunately, it is hard to get clear cut evidence of causality.

For, if economic logic were clear cut, governments wouldn t have to justify what they do on the basis of market confidence.

Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.

Forward looking deliberations need to aim at a mechanism or instrument for a clear cut prohibition of the weaponization of outer space.

(f) The negotiation of a fissile material cut off treaty with clear disarmament objectives, which also addresses the issue of existing stocks

This distinction is dubious.

Distinction and indiscriminate attacks

That distinction is crucial.

Ms. Tan asked what position the new Code took on religious law, given the clear distinction the report had drawn between religious, customary and civil law in the country.

The Chairman said that the representative of Cuba seemed to be proposing that the report should make a clear distinction between information that was required and information actually received.

Successful education and integration policies take time to work and thus will not bring clear cut results in time for the next election.

Their puritanical religious style sets forth an ideal morality with clear cut rules that are similar to the constraints of an engineering project.

The blade part of the head extends out of the lashing and shows clear signs of having been used to chop and cut.

What Eady s judgment did accomplish was to highlight the crucial distinction, necessary for all clear thinking about privacy, between what interests the public and what is in the public interest.