The point was that Michael had been trained, from his first dawn of consciousness, to differentiate between black men and white men.
For he had to learn, first, the spoken numerals; second, to see with his eyes and in his brain differentiate between one object, and all other groups of objects up to and including the group of five; and, third, in his mind, to relate an object, or any group of objects, with its numerical name as uttered by Steward.
Michael Brother of Jerry
Asked to
differentiate between European and Chinese poetry, some critics would perhaps insist upon their particular colour sense, instancing the curious fact that where we see blue to them it often appears green, and vice versa, or the tone theories that make their poems so difficult to understand; in fact, a learned treatise would be written on these lines, to prove that the Chinese poets were not human beings as we understand humanity at all.
Lute of Jade
The poor dear cannot
differentiate between erudition and wisdom."
Tarzan of the Apes
Had they known that Monsieur Thuran's past experience as a card sharp had trained his sense of touch to so fine a point that he could almost
differentiate between cards by the mere feel of them, they would scarcely have felt that the plan was so entirely fair.
The Return of Tarzan
But White Fang soon learned to
differentiate between thieves and honest men, to appraise the true value of step and carriage.
White Fang
He had heard the savage, bestial snarls and roars of combat, and he had realized with a shudder that he could not
differentiate between those of his guardian and those of the hairy ape.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Our hypothesis was that experienced readers in both specialties blinded to diagnosis would be unable to
differentiate between a series of fatty lesions and that the variables of size, nodularity, and stranding would show no predictive association with these diagnoses.
Can experienced observers differentiate between lipoma and well-differentiated liposarcoma using only MRI?
(4,19,21) Moreover, surgeons generally do not
differentiate between WDLs and ALTs when recommending treatment strategies.
Liposarcoma of the tongue: case report and review of the literature
When monthly expense reimbursement checks did not
differentiate between substantiated expenses, overpayments and payments for tools, and excess amounts were not returned, the entire reimbursement was included in the employee's income.
Mixed expense reimbursements and unreturned overpayments disqualified entire accountable plan
* It does not
differentiate between saturated fats and unsaturated fats;
Notes from the VRG scientific department
The girls and their professor came to see that "life in a totalitarian society is where you are completely alone in an illusory world full of false promises and where you can no longer
differentiate between your savior and your executioner." (p49)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books
Tom Roberts, president of the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA), says that a Florida Senate bill, SB 1462, has been introduced and aims to
differentiate between the two streams.
Seeking control: franchise rights to control generated material are shaping up as a recycling battleground. (Solid Waste Update)
Just as God can't
differentiate between us and Jesus, Jesus can't
differentiate between us and himself because we are his body.
Jesus' selfish love
Although there are plausible reasons for these distributions, I would point out once again that, to be consistent, the first statement should have been supported by a chi-square-test, while in the second case, comparison with a Poisson distribution would have been necessary to
differentiate between random and actual distribution.
Strasse und Brot: Sozialer Protest in den deutschen Staaten unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung Preussens, 1847-1849