The UUP and DUP took increasingly divergent stances in multiparty talks in the mid-1990s, and the DUP boycotted the talks when Sinn Féin was admitted in 1997.
Mr. Davis also noted the flip side of the two parties' divergent stances on social issues: increasing margins for Republicans in culturally conservative rural counties.
REGULATORS DIVIDED OVER CONSULTANTS | Federal and state regulators are united in a concern that consulting firms have produced shoddy work for banks, but they took divergent stances toward the consulting industry on Tuesday.
Yet on Tuesday, the regulators took starkly divergent stances toward the multibillion-dollar consulting industry: while federal authorities seemed to reinforce the industry's power, a state agency tried to undercut it.
Their divergent stances are just one reason Democrats are more hopeful about Edmondson's chances against Stitt than Cornett.
Because not only do you seem to be misrepresenting both Hillary and the GOP's very divergent stances, but you're actually misrepresenting Bernie's own stance.
In my PhD research, I am constantly admonished for being too unfocused, and the desire to meld divergent discourses and epistemological stances has been fraught with challenges and misunderstandings.
The stance of the two parties and their presidential standard bearers are well exemplified by their divergent Social Security positions.
Domestic and foreign audiences may have vastly divergent views on the issues, or may assign different weight than the other group to a president's stance on, say, foreign policy.
And Divergent is dangerous.
They took divergent paths.
