1.   So the reported earnings of two otherwise identical firms can differ as a result of different accounting conventions.

2.   Both versions are otherwise identical, with project-oriented writing activities for essays, stories, poems, journals and letters.

3.   But otherwise identical modems differ in their ability to move data and maintain connections when confronted with noisy phone lines.

4.   I found a replacement, which had a plastic case instead of a steel one, but was otherwise identical to the old one.

5.   If the two are otherwise identical, the company that gives options will appear more profitable, Pegg said.

6.   More funds were offered in either front-end-load or deferred-load packaging but were otherwise identical, with the same portfolios and the same managers.

7.   Tax provisions benefiting small business were merged with the wage measure, which is otherwise identical to the House version, to sweeten it for Republicans.

8.   Institute researchers compared fatal crashes of cars with anti-lock brakes to those involving otherwise identical vehicles with regular brakes.