But from 1994 to 1997 the groups blurred into one broad continuum.
It may be no more than one of the many experiences that occur in this broad continuum.
The term is sometimes used to describe a broad continuum of sexual orientation between heterosexuality and bisexuality.
Nowadays more than 90 percent of the people of Java are Muslims, on a broad continuum between abangan and santri.
Other cases fall on a broad continuum in between, the parents neither all victim nor all villain.
"They were part of this broad continuum of possible plans," Mr. Williams said.
Rather, he sees a "broad continuum" linking the two factions until the Revolution, nothwithstanding their disputes.
Brace believes that these populations later became assimilated into the broader continuum of Southwest Asian populations.
The programs view the route from welfare to work as a broad continuum, one that does not stop when someone gets a job.
But there was a broad continuum of opinion between these poles.