How To Use Difference In A Sentence

There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
I again affirm that I need make no apology for attaching my name to that of one so worthy the esteem of his co-dogs, ay, and co-cats too; for in spite of the differences which have so often raised up a barrier between the members of his race and ours, not even the noblest among us could be degraded by raising a "mew" to the honour of such a thoroughly honest dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.
The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
The difference in the power of the system to absorb different substances, appropriate whatever can be utilized, and throw off whatever can not be used, is sometimes called idiosyncrasy, but more properly it may be called vital resistance, and upon the integrity of this power rests the ability to combat disease in all its forms, whether it be the absorption of any animal virus or the poison resulting from undigested food. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

differences between theory and praxis of communism
He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
He spoke of the difference between the journey and the destination and how lasting success was found at the latter. Times, Sunday Times
It is both important and necessary to note this difference.
Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.
This is a gigantic behavior difference cued by one tiny and costless change in procedure.
Montresor assumed an air of indifference again.
But the subordinates accentuated the differences between the roles of individual contributor and manager that best fitted their interests.
Statistical analysis for significant difference in the slope of mutant induction in the presence or absence of vanillin was performed using the f-test for comparison of slopes.
The decrease in myocardial oxygen consumption was evidenced by a gradual decline in atrioventricular oxygen difference, indicating a decrease in myocardial oxygen uptake relative to supply.
The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
Each major area is enclosed by a large number of isoglosses representing differences in lexis, grammar, and phonology.
This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
The group rapidly bypassed disciplinary differences to focus on a common set of preferred aptitudes and abilities associated with critical thinking, reading, and writing.
Leaving aside the forgettable Mirage, FM's next most significant moment was 1987's Tango in the Night, the album that Buckingham rescued from the band's coked out indifference, at the cost of his own departure.
Both neo-colonial and advanced capitalist/colonial states organize and reinforce a cathectic structure based in sexual difference, which they enforce through a variety of means, including legislation.
They decided to put aside their differences.
What is the key difference between your various structures, in how various tetratomic molecules have different shape?
There is a difference, too, between appeasing men of violence and seeking to limit their appeal, just as the leaders of global terror must be separated from those who could become their followers.
Here location at the two extremities of the peninsula has involved a striking difference in ethnic infusions in the two districts, different historical careers owing to different vicinal grouping, and dissimilar geographic conditions. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Whether we take the signified or the signifier, Saussure argues, language has neither ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
Their ideological differences are suppressed but not resolved. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, we can use measures of skewness for distributions of expression differences for classified genes to discriminate between models.
Writing around the time Beecher wrote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton also found differences between women's and men's moralities.
In the 1970's the two-way radio made a big difference in making up trains and the brakeman were no longer giving signals with lanterns and lighted fuzees.
Since this difference of aspect in the object differentiates the species of virtue, it seems that dulia is divided into specifically different virtues.
We have evaluated selected molecular interactions of nucleobases in the simulated structures to obtain further insight in similarities and differences between the ability of guanine and inosine to form quadruplexes.
Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
the only difference was a minor change in the branding of the service
Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference.
The difference between the two is readily discernible.
Previous gastric surgery was uncommon in all three groups and showed no significant difference.
What is the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb? Times, Sunday Times
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Al-Mahri used astronomical observations of the height of stars to determine the difference in latitude between two places.
The difference is that these claims would once have been shouted down: it's what the phrase "boring old fart" was invented for. Stone Roses reunion: What's the worst that can happen?
There was no significant difference in percentage of cells in S phase in the distal colon of rats in both diet groups.
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
Assuming of course (4) that Germany, which wants to revise the Lisbon Treaty to apply the new rules EU-wide, and France, which wants nothing to do with a re-opening of the Treaty and therefore wants the fines to apply only in euroland, can resolve their differences. Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
New 3D imaging techniques enabled the scientists to look for subtle similarities and differences in brain structure.
The series is so competitive that an extra second on a pit stop or getting through traffic on the racetrack can mean the difference between finishing first or fourth.
Cross-correlation coefficients computed from comparisons of sonograms reflect differences in the spectral and temporal characteristics of the call, as well as differences in signal-to-noise ratio.
First, peoples' idea affects their propensity to save and consume and invest, and difference attitude on risk, which are impacted on the economic situation.
But when the therapist starts to enquire how they react to the problems at home a difference in opinion may be revealed.
This definitely could make the difference between people getting pregnant or not. Times, Sunday Times
The separatists and the integrationists both seek to make a difference and, in the process, make a buck.
The difference in ride going upwind and downwind was enormous, demonstrating the need to assess weather conditions for an offshore trip with a boat full of potentially tired divers.
Because this list is also archived on the Web, members can view for themselves the difference between what was sent to the list and what was approved by the moderators.
She's an opera singer with a difference: she can act well!
The difference in horsepower per cylinder is the cause of rough running at lean mixtures.
The differences are small, varying between 32,000 jobs a year being the lowest estimate, to 38,000 being the highest estimate.
In the development of better asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts it is important to increase the energy difference between the transition complexes in order to obtain, as a consequence, larger enantiomeric excess. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public
I think this study proves the difference between popular science and biological or anatomical science, " said Gedis Grudzinskas, consultant gynaecologist at London Bridge hospital.
What does distinguish the difference between your churches? Christianity Today
A load of people kind of just jumped on it as if it somehow made any difference to the book.
The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
They exhibit striking differences in physical features, indicating adaptation to different environments.
There may also be differences in premiums for a publican and a landlord, or a barrister and lawyer. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, surely small variations to wording cannot make a significant difference to people's replies?
No statistically significant difference existed in knowledge by task assignment of driver versus navigator.
Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference. The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas Islamic Groups Argue That Internet Speech Should Be Less Protected Than Print, Radio, or Television Speech:
He may need negotiation skills to resolve differences between trainees or between trainees and himself. Training with N.L.P.
Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
An ethics based on this undertanding focuses not on rationally finding, mapping, and teaching the real nature of reality, nor on pluralistically respecting irreconcilable differences while recognizing a simultaneous unity, but instead on drawing connections between different methods of making meaning and on coordinating the actions of people using different conceptual frameworks. Karl Higley - Spirit, Kosmos, Essence
No significant differences were found in the use of marijuana or methamphetamine across rural areas.
If the paramedic is there I know I can do something to make a difference rather than being way out of my depth. Dead Road Seven « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
A qualitative difference stands between the ministry and any other job. Christianity Today
She will blame the couple's very different social backgrounds for the differences that eventually led to the collapse of their marriage.
These basic differences between oral and written communication are a fruitful domain for continued dialogue about the strengths, limitations, and complementarities of the first-year rhetoric classroom.
Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable.
The driving force of primary migration is mainly abnormal high pressure and that of secondary migration is buoyance and fluid potential difference.
These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
She hid her true feelings behind a shield of cold indifference.
There is, if I can use the expression, a sort of gangmaster cultural phenomenon in this, that you recruit top people who really do make a difference, who really do move markets and get business and are really high achievers. Evening Standard - Home
Differences in skin color carry a freight of political and social problems in human societies. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections.
Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
Behind the apparent cross-party consensus on social mobility lie two profound philosophical differences. Times, Sunday Times
For all their differences and ambiguities, empires have shared in common a will to power that should make us skeptical of their most optimistic self-assessments.
Attempts to reconcile religious differences have been going on for years. Times, Sunday Times
By creating a potential difference of several kilovolts between the needle and the chamber walls, an intense electric field can be produced at the exit of the needle.
Three studies found no difference between those taking beta carotene supplements and those on a placebo pill.
The movie is about cultural differences and the difficulties of assimilation.
In fact, this is a difference between the northern and southern hemispheres. Times, Sunday Times
The function relation between difference and dyestuff concentration was obtained.
He went on to say that there is a difference between dying from cancer and living with cancer.
Students compare their two worksheets, looking for similarities and differences.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein
It's worth reminding ourselves of the difference between a diary and a blog. Times, Sunday Times
The difference is that the message it spelt out would be a little more discreet. Times, Sunday Times
This may reflect the differences in soil moisture regimes between the east-facing and the west-facing plots.
There also are significant differences in the requirements for testing ranges and repetition rate, and pass-fail criteria are much tighter under the new standard.
And internet users have been quick to point out the difference between his own gilded existence and that of those in the struggling steel town. The Sun
In the method, the mean velocity of certain exploration depth can be calculated making use of the difference of phase from consecutive seismic channels.
The gender differences found in this study need to be viewed in light of two methodological limitations.
I would like to digress at this point, to describe another use for allopruinol which materialized about 10 years later, because it typifies the kind of chemotherapeutic selectivity which can be achieved with purine analogs as the result of differences in the specificties of parasitic and mammalian enzymes. Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
Save for the rifles, there appeared to be no difference between exhausted captive and wearied captor.
The biopharmaceutical industry is an area in which the patent system is important because it makes a difference in whether firms will invest in research.
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
Despite their differences, there is no reason the two sides should have to resort to force to resolve the matter.
Nevertheless, there is a crucial difference between the cognitive approach and that of social representations.
In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in price is negligible.
Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
I don't think it actually bwcomes a "litigable" issue until the house and senatge conference report is being debated in the senate, and someone moves for cloture with a claim that a 51 vote "yea" will do the job because the issue under debate is subject to the "reconciliation of house and senate differences over an item of budgetary impact". Wheeling In The Cots: A Winter Snow Emergency--And An Absentee Lieberman--Is Complicating Democrats' Health Care Push
Correlation and regression analysis indicated that certain gender differences of the relationships between the behaviours and CET4 scores existed.
What difference, one might ask, is there between a turnip crisp and a potato crisp in terms of its "junkiness" or otherwise? Lex Ferenda
But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.
Given such quality and differences in approach, exquisite point-by-point collisions were inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
Climate change in the same breath as greed and consumption, sounds like our man (as was) at the IPCC, Houghton, who believed that emissions reductions would save the planet from mankind's 'greed and indifference '. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Differences in excise duties and value added tax on consumption may also induce consumers to make their purchases in the countries with the lowest taxation level.
But the presence or absence of their mother may make all the difference in determining which is which, according to new research published online yesterday in Nature Neuroscience. Mother’s Presence can Override Fear | Impact Lab
You probably feel at times like a chord of a conic section that passes through a focus and is parallel to the directrix, but know for certain that the phonemic differences between allormorphs of the same morpheme is supported by the idea that the quantitative measurement of many characters to the determination of taxa and to the construction of diagrams indicating systematic changes can make or break us. Trisomy
This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic.
And that's another difference: Kate's e-mail "entrapped" Kinsella; Warman's e-mails aren't as subtle -- he doesn't entrap people into uttering racist remarks, he outright plants those racist remarks himself. Kate McMillan's prank - Ezra Levant
The ability to be there ahead of everybody else and capture market share makes a big difference, of course.
He called the optometrist's office and was told the difference was being kept by the practice as a credit toward future visits. Consumerist
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. Woody Allen
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
Relevant dimensions of difference include morals, values, standards, beliefs, and attitudes.
So far as the essence of justice is concerned, there is no difference between one of the cases of punishment which you called barbarous, and one in which the penalty follows the offence within the hour. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
There is a strongly marked difference between the two creatures.
Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism.
He said it was only a quantitative difference.
Our second piece of equipment was an infrared thermal camera, which shows differences in temperature across the surface of an animal as a false-color image.
The story also illustrates the most radical difference between mania and hypomania.
All mallets shown below have similar options for the head styles, the differences are in the shaft types.
Drinking more water has made a difference in my skin, and I no longer have chapped lips all the time.
_fredaine_ I may have on hand makes not the slightest difference in my love and respect for her. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
Do you believe in your unique difference enough to promote yourself into a major brand personality?
As for the property rights of authors to their works, the consequences of these differences are radical.
The difference and similarity between shadow moire fringe and Newtonian circlet are discussed from basic principles.
Women are different from men, but it is time to say farewell to the politics of difference.
Business Psychologist, David Chang, lists self regulation and variety as things that really make a difference in the workplace.
They've got the adventurous outlook of the traditional budget traveller, with one important difference: dosh.
Some lenders plug in 12 months, requiring you to come up with more cash, and then rebate the difference at year-end.
God's difference is categorially different, so to speak, from one creature's otherness from a second creature. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
The only difference between audacity and recklessness is whether or not you win, and in this case a clever Union officer tricked Lee into making an audacious move that ultimately became a reckless endeavour. A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity
There are no significant differences between the education systems of the two countries.
The prenatal environment also has a major influence on differences between identical twins.
I had never driven a 4X4 before but you don't notice any difference from a normal car except for the height.
I am trying to figure out the difference between graphology and graphoanalysis.
The number of genetic differences between humans and chimps is ten times smaller than that between mice and rats.
But they still have to deal with the difficulties, limitations, differences imposed on them by Ds. So, no, Ds is not something I'd wish on nor for anyone. Snap
Thus, it should make little difference to the non-believer, in my mind, whether God had anything to do with the formation of the canon or not.
I tried so hard to keep a straight face but I just couldn't I went from anger to frustration to fear to indifference.
There is unlikely to be to be a clinically significant difference in the severity of skull fracture.
I am not a student or professor of glottology, contenting myself with being able to speak one or two languages without troubling my head over their origin, so I dare not judge upon the affinity more or less remote of the not too sweet Sakai idioms with others, but there seemed to me such a marked difference between the Malay and Sakai phraseologies that My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
It made no difference that many of these lost and hapless souls had relatives in the Society. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Thus, for example, and respectively represent the collector current and potential difference between the collector and emitter.
I do all my coats every so often and its amazing what a difference it makes, I always use the re-proofer after washing them especially on my fleeces and other ‘non’ waterproof things and it does help with showerproofing them.
Now a time has come when the country, in order to seek the final riddance from terrorism, will have to throw aside its mutual differences and hostilities and rise as a single united force.
Data on gender differences in self-reported emotional intensity and expressivity are conflicting.
Air moving within the cloud causes huge differences in the electrical distribution.
The differences may be in features, price, functionality, or anything else human ingenuity can devise. The goal in economic terms is to make a set of similar goods less substitutable for each other.
The team, in existence for just three years, travelled south confident that they would be capable of making the difference between the teams count.
An expert with a trained eye will spot the difference immediately.
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity... Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa
The difference between internet and reality is so incredible.
In cross-cultural researches on cognitive performance, it has been found that the IQ difference between the schooled and non-schooled individuals is very obvious.
... is there a difference between 'copyeditor' and 'editor'? January 16th, 2007
Results have shown no significant difference between the 2 operations: 75% for scalenectomy without rib resection and 70% for scalenectomy with rib resection.
Clearly the availability of judgments and recent canons and books on procedure made a difference to the judges.
The temperature difference is so contrastive that I have to dress differently in a day.
The resulting light and heat will make a substantial and visible difference to their daily lives. Times, Sunday Times
I agree: if a golden parachute is the difference between black and red ink, then the golden parachute oughta go. CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent
The exterior differences were minimal, amounting to some new alloys and revised indicator lamp housings.
The origin of the difference between the two species may be related to the fine structure of the roots, namely the porosity of Casparian bands.
Of course, an important difference is that to my knowledge the candlelight vigils did not engage in trespass, which the SEIU apparently did. The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Item on the SEIU Protest
I expect this was a conscious tactic for assuaging a common anxiety, and it did make it easier to ignore that difference between us.
For Life Nobles and knights, only the person originally granted the arms bears them undifferenced. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
Most off-peak tickets apply after 9am and throughout weekends, though there are specific differences in some cities (some have an afternoon peak as well). Saving Money With Off-Peak Travel | Lifehacker Australia
There is a fundamental difference between the two points of view.
A relationship looks good now you both can see the difference between being in love and being possessive. The Sun
National park status won't make a huge difference to the area for the casual visitor. The Sun
Essentially, you can use the same formation or attack pattern in any situation, which even includes (with some unmentionably minor differences) battles with bosses.
The significant difference is that our interpretation of the capital-output ratio includes variable capital, not merely fixed capital stock.
The difference between endowment mortgages and pension mortgages is that, rather than taking out an endowment policy, you take out a pension plan.
In addition, simulation results are given to show the effect of reject the main lobe interference on the sum and difference patterns.
The cat purred with magnificent indifference and left via the flap Arthur had fitted so badly they'd had to employ a carpenter to put things right.
No significant differences were reported in the areas of sensation, distress, anxiety, or narcotic intake between the three intervention groups and the control group.
A little extra care makes a big difference.
This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.
There's not much difference in price.
It really makes a BIG difference to how your hair looks, plus you get a professional blow-dry.
The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion. Archive 2007-08-01
It's time you settled your differences with your father.
So will a larger lay input into the most senior appointments make a difference? Times, Sunday Times
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
According to laser radar echo characteristic, the difference filter and the match filter were adopted. As a result, the SNR is advanced about 1.5 times.
We found no difference in the values of odds ratio or association.
He could tell the difference between reality and fantasy Language, under-standing, and logic were well developed.
Outline the differences between the use of implant-based and autologous tissue-only breast reconstruction in patients who may or will require postmastectomy radiation therapy Medscape Medical News Headlines
The thinking process of artistic language embodies the aesthetic differences of the utterance subject.

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