In addition to these divergent interests, each side has further reason to avoid too much diplomatic overspill.

The crucial task was to devise an approach, in the context of a specific case, which best reconciled the divergent interests of the various parties.

Yet their marriage in 1771 proved a perfect partnership in which both participants allowed the other freedom to pursue their divergent interests.

Going back to the causes of events, he looked for the explanation of the divergent interests of princes and of their reciprocal jealousies.

Their educated elites had divergent interests, and economic contacts between the two regions were virtually nonexistent.

There are divergent opinions about what the outcome will be.

Our commitment to tolerate divergent opinions, and to avoid action along a single political ideology, proved too frustrating for them.

Such divergent opinions on the manager are common at all clubs and often determined by self-interest.

He was superb in the chair, encouraging all viewpoints, and deft in seeing ways to reconcile divergent opinions.

There are divergent opinions as to which word they begin and with which they conclude.

Can that divergent path be narrowed?

Unfortunately, the divergent paths of the two clubs in the ensuing quarter of a century made any talk of revenge seem ridiculous.

Economists and environmentalists on the whole are rare travelling companions - their theologies set them on divergent paths.

Instead, she celebrates 'the exuberant regionalism of the interwar period', and finds evidence of 'distinctive cultures of modernism' as the towns pursued divergent paths of social, industrial and cultural development.

Since the turn of the century, the divergent paths taken by the respective countries in the championship could not be more marked.

Taken as a whole, the day appeared to reflect the divergent styles of his two campaign specialists.

By now the divergent styles of the two songwriters was producing too much creative tension for the band to survive for much longer.

However, there are exceptions and on occasions the two divergent styles were mixed.

Rather, they focus solely on the viewer, their divergent styles only furthering the intensity of their glare.

As rival capitals with divergent views on regulation, however, it would take a huge effort to overcome their differences.

Nor do we find it surprising that eminent scholars can take widely divergent views of the same material.

Given the divergent views around the table this could well prove inconclusive.

Setbacks invariably invite more comment and divergent views.

The details matter less than the fact that these widely divergent views of the place of government in national life are unlikely to be bridged.

The arguments people are having about these issues are based on such wildly divergent understandings that they become both confusing and, ultimately, futile.

In his hands, courage can take wildly divergent forms.

The reasons for transition are so wildly divergent that transition has become the struggle itself.

And why are there such wildly divergent readings of the economic tea leaves?

Generally secular texts, they nonetheless almost always attract sacral language, and - exactly like holy books - are invariably ransacked and invoked to support wildly divergent ideological positions.