Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longtime Cambridge resident said she was confident that Eighth District voters "will be able to distinguish between candidates who have experience and credentials, and the candidates who are using information from polls to make commercials that manipulate voters...
Five years ago, however, notes found in the National Archives persuaded Hirabayashi to reopen the case. In a 1942 report, the Army commander who ordered the massive relocation argued that it was not feasible to separate the "sheep from the goats" and distinguish loyal Japanese Americans. The relocation, in other words, was based on race, not urgency. The War Department ordered that racially prejudiced reasoning amended, and never revealed the original report. In essence, ruled Federal Judge Donald Voorhees last week, the U.S. lied, and he overturned Hirabayashi's conviction...
...like a warlord in Antique, wielding political patronage with his connections in the ruling party and the power he has amassed under Marcos. Opponents say he has ensured his power through alliances with the legitimate armed forces and ties to less reputable mercenaries known locally as goons. "We cannot distinguish between goons and the military here," said one provincial official afraid to have his name used. "Pacificador controls them all." A Marcos defeat was seen as a threat to such dominance...
...perquisites available to the women, but nothing of vital interest; the women, Radcliffe authorities (rather more than Radcliffe students) insist, profit greatly. Our national social history gives us plentiful reason to look askance at such groupings, but our political heritage should insulate us from the mistake of failing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of free association...
Dershowitz recounts a conversation he had with a "young man" going to the game who conceded: "You win, I can't distinguish between a South African and Soviet team...