But really, for 99% of the population this is a distinction without a difference.
That might sound to you like a distinction without a difference.
Mr. LARRY PRATT (Director, Gun Owners of America): Well, that's a distinction without a difference, to go after an ammunition ban, say well, that's not a gun.
Looking at deficits, a dollar is a dollar is a dollar, so whether the burden that is government is financed by incoming revenues or through borrowing is to make a distinction without a difference.
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While Secretary Mosbacher has subsequently sought to make a distinction between a state-of-the-art fiber optic capability (which he says he would oppose selling the Soviet Union on national security grounds) and an older version (which he evidently believes would not cause similar problems), in fact this is a distinction without a difference.
"It's a distinction without a real difference, " Mr. Mierzwinski says.
Lately Mr. Obama has been going around saying that the problem is that he's a President, not an "emperor" or "dictator, " but on carbon regulation this is a distinction without much difference.
Yes, I know to most people a difference without a distinction but it is important given that the piece is saying about rare earth prices.
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This is a distinction without much difference in the current context.
So while Bush sounds like he's proposing substantial cuts in nuclear force levels, it could be a difference without much distinction.
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