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Usage examples of distinctive.

Cautious, conservative by nature, Dickinson was, as Adams had noted, a distinctive figure, tall and exceptionally slender, with almost no color in his face.

But as they began to make their way toward the trail, a Toyota four-by-four vehicle painted with the distinctive green of the Amn Al-Khass Interior Police-with five armed and uniformed men inside-raced past them and rounded the corner just behind them.

It also requires that even older archeological remains must exist from which the later distinctive fluted point technology developed.

Romans imitated that distinctive attitude, pretending to Augustan calmness that had actually ceased to be a part of public life.

Bahaism as it is held by devout groups in America, so far as ethics and ideals go, from much that is distinctive in the Christian spirit, though the influence of Bahaism as a whole would be to efface distinctions and especially to take the force out of the Christian creeds.

Here were found the remains of large mammals, associated with distinctive bifacially flaked spear points, and with burins and blades made from characteristic wedge-shaped cores.

Aside from establishing the Royal Commission on Publications, whose recommendations to save Canadian magazines he ignored, and calling federal-provincial meetings on Canadianizing the constitution and the adoption of a 256 Exercise of Power distinctive Canadian flag, he did nothing significant to further the cause of Canadian nationalism.

We agreed that it was a memento distinctive of the Champa lands, and rare even here.

The natives of Champa can recognize one tiger from another by the distinctive striping of its face.

Whether or not the Chekhovian era is receding into the past, it has been visible to many as a distinctive part of modern literature.

The distinctive features of the Constantinian empire as compared with that of Diocletian, or of the tetrarchy of which he was the head, were not evolved from earlier political principles, but stood out in bold contrast and even in direct opposition to the very fundamentals of antique statesmanship, and so new in politics that even Constantine permitted them to slip away from his grasp long before the sunset of his life had come.

Darwinians, do not believe, and often cannot even understand, the distinctive Darwinian addition to the evolutionary doctrine - namely, the principle of natural selection.

They spoke distinctive dialects of English, built their houses in diverse ways, and had different methods of doing much of the ordinary business of life.

The Eutychians, at the opposite extreme, denied two distinctive natures.

PROCEEDING now to give an account of the fancies and opinions in regard to a future life which have been prevalent, in different ages, in various nations of the earth, it will be best to begin by presenting, in a rapid series, some sketches of the conceits of those uncivilized tribes who did not so far as our knowledge reaches possess a doctrine sufficiently distinctive and full, or important enough in its historical relations, to warrant a detailed treatment in separate chapters.