The cultural and historic rifts over whales are even more intense than the scientific and regulatory debate.

But underlying the legal feud is a cultural rift between the coasts.

An economic and cultural rift usually exists between different classes.

Today there is another sort of cultural rift that seems to defy union or even comity: the gap between the doctor and the scientist.

Tensions have been raised by the cultural and philosophical rift exposed by the push for a new constitution.

It exposed a cultural rift, with people viewing each other suspiciously from across the divide.

Part of the problem was a cultural rift, negotiators on both sides said.

In the play, the cultural rifts emerge as the characters discuss the flogging of "that boy."

Poland resembles Italy and France during that period more than Germany, with which it has always had a deep cultural rift.

While there was general agreement that the wording of the law should be improved, the debate also revealed considerable cultural rifts.