This distinction means that the church has two separate problems requiring different solutions.

The distinction could mean the difference between manslaughter and murder.

The slight distinction meant they now had nowhere to go and, worse, no one to take them there.

These apparently small distinctions mean the difference between life and death.

Those distinctions didn't mean as much as they used to.

The distinction, the Florida court said, meant the legal issues were different.

We are fellow Americans, and that shared distinction means more to me than any other association.

Each distinction of magnitude meant a star was about two and a half times as bright - or dim.

I've never been sure if the distinction means anything.

We set great store, for instance, on the difference between art and design, but traditionally the distinction has meant little to the Japanese.