Is there a meaningful distinction, or are these battles simply the politics of the possible?
Writers over the last decades have attempted to salvage meaningful distinctions between the words from the confused wreckage of historical sources.
However, these agencies also acknowledge that they are still working at implementing effective systems that can make meaningful distinctions in performance.
In his view, there were no meaningful distinctions between advertising, price, packaging, product use, or the brand promotion.
"Right now, you really can't make meaningful distinctions among individual carriers," he said.
Or that there's still a meaningful distinction to be made between "traveler" and "tourist."
Before medical technology provided breathing machines, there was no meaningful distinction between brain and cardiac death.
Nor am I persuaded that there's a meaningful distinction between "anthropological" and "condescending."
He further charged that corporate influence has blurred any meaningful distinctions between the Democratic and Republican parties.