But the exchange on abortion exposed some of the many fine, often semantic distinctions used by both sides.

This semantic distinction was exactly what the neighborhood was looking for.

It now turns out that the Administration based its claim of success on semantic distinctions.

Finally, it wasn't able to show the semantic distinctions between multiple readings of single characters.

This is an essentially semantic distinction that the Bush Administration rejects.

He had no intent to make a semantic distinction between chymia and alchymia.

Out here in the hinterlands, we want answers, not semantic distinctions.

But even semantic distinctions indicate a news program's sensibility.

Over time these semantic distinctions have helped change public attitudes and actual teaching practices.

Some anthropologists make a semantic distinction between group and individual levels of acculturation.