21.   But on many other matters, negotiators seemed stuck on the same issues that kept them apart when they first sat down at the negotiating table.

22.   Death and serious illness are the only forces that would ever keep them apart.

23.   Fears of custody battles, legal matters and emotional suffering kept them apart.

24.   For six months, starting last June, they respected a cease-fire, even without U.N. peacekeepers to keep them apart.

25.   French troops and an Italian special police unit were positioned in between them to keep them apart.

26.   Girl meets boy, conflict keeps them apart, and in the end they all live happily ever after.

27.   He has been kept apart from President Bush as much as possible, in order to ensure presidential succession in case of further terrorist attacks.

28.   Here, Islamic leaders say, the people suspected of terrorism seem to have deliberately kept themselves apart from other Muslims.

29.   If humans are naturally gregarious animals, some force outside nature must be keeping Americans apart.

30.   Instead, the Staples Center is built to keep us apart.