1.   Bush attempted to dismiss the issue Monday as a small legal distinction.

2.   But Judge M. Yvette Miller, writing for a three-judge panel, said the court drew a strict legal distinction between a civil union and marriage.

3.   But to the watchdogs at the SEC, there is no legal distinction.

4.   Indeed, federal legislation has erased virtually all legal distinctions between same-sex unions and heterosexual marriages.

5.   Many of those interviewed say they well understand the legal distinction between saying something under oath and saying it before television cameras while not under oath.

6.   On Friday, a bill became law in Canada that erases virtually all legal distinctions between heterosexual marriages and same sex unions.

7.   School officials acknowledge that the high court had good reasons for making a legal distinction between athletes, who volunteer for a team, and other students.

8.   The more fastidious use cell phones, a legal distinction without a moral difference.

9.   The legal distinction is designed to curtail the added constitutional protections McDermott receives as a congressman.

10.   The legal distinction mattered little.