Learning to balance these divergent but ultimately shared interests is "the challenge of the next 10 years," he said.

Still, their divergent interests both led them into conflict with France.

Those parties have often had divergent interests, observers said yesterday.

These companies had divergent interests at times which resulted in costly competition.

They were a close and affectionate couple who just happened to have very divergent interests.

And over the years their divergent interests kept splitting them up; they could have lost touch entirely.

They are a loose coalition of 18 or so organizations with divergent interests and goals.

"With the rapid changes in the world, a nation considered friendly today may have divergent interests tomorrow."

There are also divergent interests among Palestinians along class and other lines.

Turning now to the issue of market access, it was clear from the hearing that there are very divergent interests at stake here.