1.   America is such a diverse country.

2.   Brazil is a very diverse country with a lot of political groups and a very active civil society.

3.   Every presidential candidate at this stage of the game swears he would fight for every state and every vote in this richly diverse country.

4.   In countries as diverse as Mexico, Germany, China and New Zealand, laws have been passed to curb and punish domestic violence.

5.   In another first for an increasingly diverse country, the speedskater Derek Parra became the first Mexican-American to win a medal in the Winter Olympics.

6.   In varied forms, sportswear dressing, an American invention, has recently infiltrated the style sensibility of countries as diverse as Japan, France and Nigeria.

7.   International bankers suddenly discovered an interest in investing in countries as diverse as Dominican Republic, Thailand and Morocco.

8.   No diverse country can be captured in a single microcosm, but Omiya has rhythms and anxieties that resonate beyond the rice paddies that mark the edge of town.

9.   Six other wildly diverse countries are about to start negotiations, a process likely to last at least a decade.

10.   Skeptics worry that the architects of the euro are inviting disaster by imposing a single economic policy on diverse countries.