A classical distinction exemplifies "national sovereignty" in the French Constitution of 1791 .

He subsequently entered Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1814, he obtained a scholarship, then the highest classical distinction.

Of course, then critics would have to determine what qualifies for the "classical" distinction (yes, distinction!)

He also ignores the classical distinctions between the good and corrupt forms, for example between monarchy and tyranny.

To the classical distinction between Infrastructure and Superstructure, they added the distinction between Form and Content (Bate 1998).

The Cathedral organ stands on the ornate medieval screen, preserving the old classical distinction between quire and nave.

As a result, the term is used more broadly and retrospectively to describe pre-19th-century, tragicomic dramas that do not fit easily into the classical generic distinction between comedy and tragedy.

An ideology that transcends the classical distinction between left-wing and right-wing.

The classical distinction between the diegetic mode and the mimetic mode relate to the difference between the epos (or epic poetry) and drama.

As with the SoHo Building, Mr. Nouvel makes a starkly classical distinction between the back and the formal public facade.