Word: distinguish
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...anything has been really watched carefully to try to distinguish it as strongly as possible from undergraduate education, certainly research costs at most of the universities I know anything about have," Rudenstine said. "It's one reason why the sponsor is always asked to pay the direct costs and then to pay what we think is the right share of the indirect costs...
...women are implicated in the war against them. American soldiers in Viet Nam committed an unknowable number of rapes, including those attending the massacre at My Lai, in part when the units were incompetently or viciously led, but also in part because it was hard for the Americans to distinguish officially friendly Vietnamese civilians from the Viet Cong...
...They all cried, didn't they? But not me," she starts out, to distinguish herself from her fellow inmates in a Florida prison, who also have stories to tell. "No one will help me. No one will write about me. I don't have a dirty story. I wasn't abused as a child. I was a respectable government employee, employed by the Navy in a high position in Washington...
...clemency movement grows, it challenges a legal system that does not always distinguish between a crime and a tragedy. What special claims should victims of fate, poverty, violence, addiction be able to make upon the sympathies of juries and the boundaries of the law? In cases of domestic assaults, some women who suffered terrible abuse resorted to terrible means to escape it. Now the juries, and ultimately the society they speak for, have to find some way to express outrage at the brutality that women and children face every day, without accepting murder as a reasonable response...
Richard Nash plays the Police Officer, Sordido, Antonio and the Duke. Somehow he manages to distinguish between all these roles with startling versatility. His officer is the best Irish copper this side of Sean Connery in The Untouchables...