The committee's general recommendations involved requiring professors at all universities to make a distinction in their classrooms between facts and their political opinions.
But Sheehan says it's possible to make a distinction between the quality of a piece of science and the ethics of how it was obtained.
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To avoid that dangerous route, we need to make a distinction between the nuclear ambitions of the Islamic Republic and the growing civil rights movement in Iran.
Obama also seemed to make a distinction between good tax increases and bad ones, saying that these tax increases would not serve a meaningful purpose like deficit reduction or infrastructure spending.
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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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The fact that Dahlan was in possession of Toledano's ID raises the question of Fatah's involvement in his kidnap and murder and casts a pall over the entire attempt by Israel and the West to make a distinction between Hamas and Fatah terrorists.
Look, the kitchen table I grew up in Claymont, Delaware, no one sat around and was able to make a distinction between, if that existed at the time, between bailing out the banks, TARP, between a funding program that was designed called the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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His refusal to make a moral distinction between the mullahs and their democratic opponents - like his refusal in Cairo to make a moral distinction between a nuclear-armed Iran and a nuclear-armed America - makes clear that he is not interested in forging a factually accurate or morally clear-sighted foreign policy.
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.
Do you think that you've failed to make a communications distinction between the two and that's one of the problems you face as people try to decide whether this was good for them or not?
Ahmadinejad means to make certain that to the extent a distinction is made between Iran's nuclear weapons program and Israel's purported nuclear arsenal, the distinction will claim that whereas Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal needs to be destroyed, Iran's interest in nuclear weapons is a justified response to Israeli badness.
Suffice to say, if you have non-technical relatives who rely upon you to navigate this conundrum, you might find yourself having to make this distinction on a regular basis.
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By repurposing existing clean energy policies and investing in clean energy innovation, the United States can be the first country to make clean energy cheap and reliable, a distinction that is sure to bring major economic benefits in a multi-trillion dollar energy market.
Most advocates of markets have failed to fully make this distinction, perpetuating a cult of market meritocracy--something that has hindered, not helped, the cause of free markets.
Last night on the ABC special, the President did make it a point to draw a distinction between taxing all health insurance benefits versus taxing the Cadillac portions of health insurance benefits, while he maintained that it's still not his choice.
We have a very important distinction to make between this case and Exxon Valdez.
Both Cohen and Schaumberg also make a clear distinction between guilt and shame - a trait linked to low self-esteem.
The concept of lookalike audiences, problematic as it is, is a useful tool to use to make the distinction between the twin aspects of Facebook.
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Republican strategists try to draw a distinction between African Americans and the Hispanic and Asian voters who play a gradually growing role in elections but as the debate over immigration showed, that's not a distinction the white backlash voters the modern GOP depends on are prepared to make.
This blurring of the distinction between private and public equity markets might make sense if a publicly quoted firm proved to be the best vehicle for providing venture capital.
Besides, argues Ashcroft, voters do make a distinction between, say, restraining the growth of the federal bureaucracy and providing a helping hand to workers in an insecure economy.
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