11.   Rather than any dilution or disorientation in approach, however, a comparison of the two recordings shows a greater mastery and an even more distinctive stylistic identity.

12.   The Lazi, a Black Sea people with no written language, have downplayed their distinctive identity.

13.   Too few think about how to engage their communities, or forge a distinctive identity.

14.   As communities within particular nation-states become more conscious of their distinctive identities, they sometimes seek to merge with their kindred kind located in a neighbouring territory.

15.   Since the rise of the nationalist movements however, both Serb and Croat academics have worked hard to pinpoint the distinctive identities of the two variants.