Distinguish
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To answer that question, it is important to
distinguish
between two issues that have become conflated in public debate: electronic espionage against foreign entities and domestic surveillance of a government’s own citizens.
It is understandable that he wishes to
distinguish
himself from his predecessor, Vicente Fox, who was unable to get meaningful reforms through Congress.
Analyzing these events much later, historians constructed elaborate typologies to
distinguish
between fascist and merely authoritarian regimes.
For starters, Western leaders and institutions should
distinguish
between state-sponsored activities and legitimate, mutually beneficial cultural, civic, and educational exchanges among private citizens and entities.
In 1958, when Imanishi and his students toured the US to report their findings, they were ridiculed for humanizing their subjects and for believing that they could
distinguish
between all those monkeys.
Conflicts take place within and between states; civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to
distinguish.
So it is important to
distinguish
what is common to many developed countries and what is specific to France.
Healthy volunteers invented a hallucination, in order to find out whether the psychiatric system could
distinguish
genuine mental illness.
At the same time, divergences within the two main camps have grown, making it much more difficult to
distinguish
clearly two opposing perspectives.
Here would be a strange war of all against all, war with no clear-cut fronts; war difficult to
distinguish
from terrorism, genocide, and organized crime; war into which the whole world would be dragged by a myriad of indirect and hidden means.
Although it is sometimes difficult to
distinguish
the drivers of displacement, data from the United Nations refugee agency show that at least half of those trying to reach Europe from North Africa are fleeing from war and persecution.
Now is certainly a tense time to become involved in the Middle East, a region where, as Richard N. Haass argues, a New Thirty Years’ War, in which “civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to distinguish,” is unfolding.
Scrutiny of the formal reasoning that establishes the theorem shows that relying only on the preference rankings of individuals makes it difficult to
distinguish
between very dissimilar social choice problems.
A new constitution, backed by a national referendum, is part of this drive to reshape Taiwan's identity and
distinguish
the new generation of politicians from those who arrived as exiles from the mainland.
It’s important to
distinguish
four distinct phases of outside help to end a conflict.
The Treaty of Rome, which established the common market back in 1957, did not
distinguish
between state-owned and private enterprises, though vast sectors of the economy (most of the coal and steel industry, and in many countries banking) were in state hands at the time.
Later, suicides became routinely described as "non-accidental overdoses," and the broad-spectrum term "emotional lability" came into vogue, despite its inability to
distinguish
between a drug-induced suicide attempt and an outburst of tears.
When ASEAN member states cannot reach a consensus, they should
distinguish
between two types of issues to determine the path forward: those that have obvious implications for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and domestic autonomy of a member state; and those that have obvious implications for regional security.
It has proved to be impossible to distinguish, either biologically or symptomatically, between different varieties of these conditions, which thus constitute a continuum – most likely of complexity, rather than severity.
He called his theory “general” to
distinguish
it from the pre-Keynesian theory, which assumed a unique level of output – full employment.
We must
distinguish
between the dangerous and the merely disagreeable.
Although it will become increasingly difficult to
distinguish
between people fleeing from environmental factors and those who have left for other reasons, we know that climate will play a larger role in migration, as slow-onset threats such as erosion and acute hazards such as cyclones threaten more people’s livelihoods.
At the outset, we have to
distinguish
between “need” and “demand.”
In practice, however, it has never been simple to
distinguish
between economic and political migrants, because political persecution usually includes economic restrictions.
But they also had a strategic military value, because they enabled the Peruvian government to
distinguish
friends from enemies on the ground.
That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin’s era: the inability to
distinguish
between the Soviet past and the Russian present; an unscrupulous mix of political conservatism and historical revisionism; and indifference, bordering on incomprehension, with regard to the key values of democracy.
The first step in assessing China’s financial vulnerability is to
distinguish
a solvency crisis, which can occur when firms lack sufficient capital to withstand an asset-price meltdown, from a liquidity crisis.
The first task is to
distinguish
between what is feasible and what is not.
It is important to
distinguish
such problems from those that cannot, in principle, be solved.
It is important, however, to
distinguish
between basic empathic responses and a more universal capacity for compassion.
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