11.   The distinction is probably lost on Francois and the dozen plainclothes gunmen guarding his crumbling empire.

12.   The distinction was lost on most people who live or work in the area.

13.   The film is enthusiastically vulgar but not particularly funny, perhaps because it too often loses the distinction between gross-out humor and the merely gross.

14.   The moral distinction may be lost to most people.

15.   The vocal blend of the popular harmony quartet is clean and smooth, but when individual voices step out for solos, the singing loses its distinction.

16.   These fine distinctions were lost in the rush to judgment.

17.   With the emergence of the Alaska spaceport, Vandenberg will lose the distinction of being the only place in the United States where rockets are launched into polar orbit.

18.   For the second year in a row, the Academy Awards loses its distinction of being the top-rated entertainment program.

19.   Kelly Air Force Base is losing its distinction as the oldest continuously operating Air Force base in the country.