11.   Business interests, though, say specific legal questions in the cases are different, even if the broader underlying issues are similar.

12.   But others have chided city officials for focusing on the disputed facts and not the underlying issues of diversity.

13.   But the underlying issue was economic.

14.   But, he added, there was an underlying issue.

15.   De la Torre said there must be understanding on both sides of the border, however, about the underlying issues of poverty driving the smuggling trade.

16.   Fascination and ambush marketing opportunities aside, the underlying issue is ownership of the rights to place and sell those advertisements.

17.   Gardner, a retired executive for the County of Los Angeles, said the underlying issue among community residents remains racial equality.

18.   He praised their efforts to find common ground for dealing with the immediate security problem but did not address the underlying issues dividing them.

19.   He wrote that he subscribed to everything Stevens had said, and went on to offer a different way of thinking about the underlying issue in the case.

20.   Hospitals are required to report unexpected deaths or troubles to the board, then work with it to address underlying issues.