1.   And that is a defining difference between the United States and Europe.

2.   A better explanation calls for an understanding of the defining difference between the Reagan and Bush approaches to economic leadership.

3.   But others, including some Israelis, see the continuing occupation of Palestinian lands as the defining difference.

4.   But there was a defining difference.

5.   But with time running out before the New Hampshire primary, they decided to run it now, believing it to be a defining difference with Bush.

6.   Much heated debate is underway concerning the defining difference between what makes a performance a musical or an opera.

7.   The defining difference, quite simply, was that Augusta County had slavery, and Franklin County did not.

8.   The defining difference, he said, is presumably how they formed, and astronomers have no way yet to establish how the enormous mystery object originated.

9.   Whatever similarities the series implies, Hughes is most emphatic about the great defining differences between America and Australia.

10.   For most white Canadians, eager to distinguish their society from their neighbor to the south, a defining difference is a sense of moral superiority on race relations.