Still, Democrats and Republicans ended up with sharply differing agendas on the most contentious issues, which leaders of the Democratic-controlled General Assembly must now address.
There are sharply differing agendas for the session, and some diplomats are questioning whether the "emergency" meeting of the union, called by the Czech Republic, which holds the organization's presidency, can achieve much amid those divisions.
As the survivorship movement matured, new responsibilities and differing agendas arose amongst these groups.
His skills as a delegator, and as an arbitrator of squabbles, became especially useful in sifting through cabinet officers' wildly differing agendas.
Open-source pointed to a new way: "a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches," as he put it, "out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles".
Mr. Brahimi has stressed repeatedly that the formation of a functional coalition in Afghanistan is a complex and slow task, especially as it involves factions and tribes that have been at war for decades and a variety of outside powers with sharply differing agendas.
Most conflicts between venture capitalists and founders arise out of differing agendas, miscommunication, lack of communication and inexperience — not malicious deception.
Yet voters trying to determine the potential impact of a newly uncovered trove of emails that may or may not implicate Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have virtually nothing to go on other than reports sourced to anonymous law enforcement officials with differing agendas.
The two groups with greatly differing political agendas forged an alliance against the U.S. occupation and the Shiite-dominated government that succeeded Hussein.
