The legal arguments in the case involve technical distinctions between sovereignty, jurisdiction and control.

The company, too, was marching on to technical distinction.

We can expose the ambiguity by introducing some technical distinctions.

"They had been excluded because of a technical, legal distinction."

This technical distinction is important to determine where to file a lawsuit and how to serve a defendant.

There are some technical distinctions: for one, fluorescent tubing is manufactured and cannot be bent.

The technical distinction between a pond and a lake has not been universally standardized.

Whatever technical or legal distinctions might exist, he knew better.

Moving the war's financing off budget is no mere technical distinction.

Mr. Aldonas was to some extent drawing a technical distinction.