marcar la diferencia

(v.) = make + the difference, make + a difference, spell + the difference

Ex. Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.

Ex. If that cannot be determined, it hardly makes a difference which you use as main entry.

Ex. We are all aware of the nature of the threshold on which the catalog -- that often maligned instrument that spells the difference between the library as a chaotic warehouse of recorded artifacts and a coherent collection of information organized for efficient access -- is poised.

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(v.) = make + the difference, make + a difference, spell + the difference

Ex: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.

Ex: If that cannot be determined, it hardly makes a difference which you use as main entry.

Ex: We are all aware of the nature of the threshold on which the catalog -- that often maligned instrument that spells the difference between the library as a chaotic warehouse of recorded artifacts and a coherent collection of information organized for efficient access -- is poised.