Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Representatives from the Medical and Education Schools said they were pleased with their number-one ratings, but they added that it is impossible for a single survey to accurately distinguish between graduate schools...
...have always felt that an honors degree [in the humanities and social science] which entailed writing a thesis had a certain value that an honors degree based only on a grade average might not have," Maier said. "I would like to distinguish those students who write a thesis from those...
...group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
Characters speak English, even when they're supposed to be speaking Irish. Friel's convention is difficult to accept, especially when his play deals with language at such a fundamental level and is so firmly grounded in realism. Director Howard Davies compounds the problem by failing to distinguish when characters are speaking in translated Irish or actual English, causing frequent confusion...
...Radcliffe Senior Soiree. My problem is that I don't have a date. But that's not the only problem. I am fully aware of the fact that there are dateless senior men a-plenty, even at this late date. The issue is that I can't distinguish between the unasked and the asked. It's not that I mind the asking, or even the rejection. I just can't spend the dance running into my old askees. I don't want them to gloat when they see my date--whoever he may be--knowing all the while that...