21.   Bush and the other leaders clearly wanted the meeting to end on a concordant note, but sharp differences were evident.

22.   But even then, a senior government official said, there are sharp differences over what to discuss.

23.   But his spokesman, Nicholas Burns, said there had been no narrowing of the sharp differences.

24.   But several legislative efforts to scrap the current system have failed amid sharp differences over key issues, including whether judges should be elected or appointed by the governor.

25.   But sharp differences on several major issues still divide the two sides over how to widen Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank.

26.   But the ideas have all died because of sharp ideological differences, distrust between the parties and fear of alienating the elderly, a reliable voting bloc.

27.   But the arranged marriage would collapse, undone by the sharp cultural differences between Bunyamin, a Dane in all but name, and his Turkish bride.

28.   But there are sharp differences.

29.   But there is a sharp difference in the situations.

30.   But there are sharp regional differences.