1.   Competent Decisions require not only thoughtful consideration and thorough deliberation but also complicated maneuvering through many divergent interests.

2.   But ethnicity itself can tie people together, as volumes of social science literature have documented even people with divergent economic interests.

3.   But few are confident that the legislature will even be able to pass a new map, with black and white Democrats heading into the session with divergent interests.

4.   Conventional wisdom suggests that the two sides have divergent interests, since the more farmers make from their crops, the more consumers are likely to pay for them.

5.   In both cases, he said, he put the divergent interests in a room, closed the door and made them thrash it out.

6.   They have asserted that the males and females have very divergent interests, the males trying to survive to breed again, the female hoping for dinner.

7.   Unable to reconcile widely divergent interests among its members, the World Trade Organization is struggling to advance its trade liberalization agenda through a new round of negotiations.

8.   Deputy Thai Foreign Minister Dr M.R. Sukhumband Paribatra said one of the challenges facing co-operative measures in regional security was the divergent interests and policies in the region.

9.   Estrada will also need to deal with the divergent interests of his backers who have catapulted him to power.