distinguishing mark

A distinguishing mark in Tharpe’s story, though, is the fortitude she was able to muster, growing up in a suffocating environment and still finding a way to escape and formulate her own style.

Jackson would be the first federal public defender to sit on the Supreme Court, a distinguishing mark for the Biden administration which has sought to stock the federal bench with varied legal backgrounds.

Police officials credited Hershey with having “the presence of mind” despite his critical wound “to approach the fleeing vehicle and strike it with his handgun to leave a distinguishing mark to assist with later identifying the vehicle.”

Its only distinguishing mark was a little flick of a white tail I never would have noticed.

Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the civil rights movement who had known Mr. Lewis since the mid-60s, said in an interview, “His most distinguishing mark was steadfastness. He showed lifelong fidelity to the idea of one man, one vote — democracy as the defining purpose of the United States.”