11.   She and others in this smaller minority have their own distinct culture and attitudes, and she has written a book about her experiences.

12.   The bungalow colonies, for example, were not just clusters of cottages around a lawn but a distinct culture.

13.   The distinct culture does not stop there.

14.   The group has been involved recently in plans by Kashmiris, who have an ethnically and linguistically distinct culture, to create their own electoral system for the territory.

15.   The idea of picking and choosing from distinct cultures as if they were platters on a buffet, Kunuk acknowledges, is not entirely practical.

16.   The plan would thus threaten a distinct Tibetan culture, and should be stopped.

17.   They had wealth and status, Bhabha said, but aside from their religious beliefs, little in the way of distinct culture.

18.   This will permanently change Italy from being a place with a distinct national culture to an amalgamation, more like France or America.

19.   Wellfleet was based in Massachusetts and Synoptics in Santa Clara, and both companies had very distinct corporate cultures, Ms. Lewis said.

20.   What is especially remarkable, archaeologists said, is that the discovery appears to reveal two distinct cultures at the two levels.