41.   To evaluate fine distinctions, he said, trained technicians are necessary.

42.   Unfortunately, too, in arguments that demand fine distinctions, Lebrecht paints with a broad brush, a roller, even a spray gun.

43.   While the videotaped testimony may have not added much new, it does show a sometimes evasive president who makes fine legal distinctions and pleads a loss of memory.

44.   With New York audiences, any such appeal, let alone the fine distinctions, is to laugh or, more accurately, to cough.

45.   With the boom in vans and four-by-fours, credit cards that provide coverage for damage to rental cars are drawing increasingly fine distinctions as to what vehicles they cover.

46.   Many assessment instruments stretch the discriminative capacity of managers too far by asking for fine distinctions of performances.

47.   The case also underlined fine distinctions between spying and, say, information gathering.

48.   There is, however, a fine distinction between spying and just being observant.