21.   How these differences can be bridged remains unclear.

22.   In the meantime, the two sides deliberated proposals presented by Zinni that would bridge differences, namely over the timing of the truce and its sequence.

23.   Instead of bridging differences, the broad government has seemed to exacerbate them.

24.   Like its predecessors the past two decades, it again failed to bridge differences blocking legislation to modernize the financial services industry or to re-write campaign finance laws.

25.   Mediators including King Abdullah of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt worked until the last minute trying to bridge the differences between the two sides.

26.   Moore, however, was not at the Carlton-Lindsey meeting and he offered no indication of how differences could be bridged.

27.   Neither side made any concessions on Tuesday night and no specific differences were bridged.

28.   No one is expecting the political parties to bridge those differences any time soon.

29.   Olajuwon builds on that understanding to stress that religious people must be leaders in finding ways to bridge differences.

30.   Something about third-party and independent candidates who seem to bridge partisan differences stirs the adventuresome American soul.