Calculations that assume that women over 60 and men over 65 are 'dependent' must indeed be diverging increasingly from reality.

Scotland and Ireland are two societies which initially had much in common but whose fortunes increasingly diverged.

Additionally, as one approaches the poles the apparent path of the Sun through the sky each day diverges increasingly from the vertical.

Many of the early episodes featured identical plots and some of the same dialogue, though as the season went on the episodes' plots diverged increasingly from the originals.

However, when the Internet arrived in full force, James increasingly diverged from the family and was eventually made head of a fiber-optic subsidiary.

To achieve these goals, the government pumped money into the machine-building sector but as time went by, Gorbachev increasingly diverged from his original stance.

For Canada, it is the imperative of foreign and domestic policies that increasingly diverge from Washington's conservative consensus.

Schooled in analytic philosophy, his approach increasingly diverged from the mainstream having more in common with the American philosopher Richard Rorty and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

I have the impression that the opinions of European citizens are increasingly diverging from those of the political elite.

But he also noticed that African-American names diverged increasingly from the mainstream in a pattern that correlated with growing social status and racial pride.