31.   Such fine distinctions may not matter to the harried business person who suddenly finds he can no longer call home from a distant airport.

32.   Such fine distinctions are central to Jewish law, life and identity.

33.   That is a promotional mouthful, and a fine historic distinction, when you consider that five other Cup events are carried live at night by cable networks.

34.   The appeals court ruling dealt with the fine distinction between how the state enforces drunken-driving laws for minors and adults.

35.   The Court of Appeals in New York, in reconsidering the Jeffries case, was appropriately careful to draw fine distinctions.

36.   The law is built on fine distinctions, and this is one of them.

37.   The time for abstract arguments and fine distinctions is over.

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

39.   This might seem like too fine a legal distinction to some, but the terms we use in public discussion about law count a great deal.

40.   Those are the sorts of fine distinctions upon which playoff series turn, especially these stubby little five-gamers.