It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
Quotes about distinctively (10 Quotes)
His legislative achievement, particularly in getting legislation with a distinctively Republican stamp on it, is almost without parallel.
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
nothing distinctively Catholic about their jurisprudence.
The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively different, though at leisure labor is often involved. Some people are able to maintain a happier balance between labor and leisure, not because they have a world of free time, but because they effectively expanded what is in leisure.
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
Product Ventures, which designed the Duracell EasyTab hearing aid battery and its packaging, conducted consumer research and found that packaging needed to be more than just a display mechanism in order to distinctively brand the product. The packaging needed to be a dispensing system, ... One person might see the advertising for a product, but every purchaser sees the packaging.
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.