The term "Myelat" is still in common use today, although the old political and administrative distinctions no longer apply.

No ambition for professional or political distinction beset him.

Divisions between high and low culture have been increasingly seen as political distinctions rather than defensible aesthetic or intellectual ones.

Thirteen were men of political and military distinction.

There is, for some, an unnerving sense that traditional political distinctions have blurred.

But when the bomb went off, on the afternoon of Aug. 15, 1998, it made no religious or political distinctions.

His military service, often a crucial social and political distinction here, was similarly modest.

Finally there is no religious, political or social distinction within this association.

It thus is a violation of the rights of a nonpartisan organization that makes no political distinctions to make its position known.

The world is divided into two groups of people and here I draw no political or social distinctions.