1.   Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions, but they did require certain forms of expenditure.

2.   But thievery makes no such social distinctions.

3.   Comfort and convenience are obviously the main attractions, but a certain social distinction seems to be in the sartorial calculus as well.

4.   For three centuries, class has defined social distinctions in England.

5.   I doubt if there was any other period in which social distinction and moral complacency could be derived from a grotesquely enlarged toe.

6.   Ms. Clayburn sees social distinctions among porches.

7.   The company has blurred social distinctions in an effort to head off any tension between those workers who have college degrees and those who do not.

8.   What has dominated the news is life among the others in the substrata beneath, a complex world of uncertainty, anger and cruel social distinctions.

9.   While hardly a figure of social distinction, Casanova frequently arranged to meet people of power.

10.   Ezer Weizman, who was president until last month, congratulated Katsav and said his election was a sign that Israel had overcome such social distinctions.