Although both sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute say they are ready to talk, a wide gulf divides them.

Yet a gulf divides them, one marked by race, class and history.

And," he concludes, presumably on Mr. Netanyahu's say-so, "no gulf about the goal of Israel's destruction divides the P.L.O. and various fundamentalists - mostly tactics.

He was conscious that an even wider gulf now divided Riggs and himself.

Still, on a multitude of issues, deep gulfs divide them.

And no gulf about the goal of Israel's destruction divides the P.L.O. and various fundamentalists - mostly tactics.

As this millennium ends, a vast gulf still divides the people who write code from the people whose companies live or die by that code.

But it was clear from the opening positions of both parties that a vast gulf divides them, making a settlement difficult at best.

This discomfort is evident in Rivesaltes, where a gulf divides the town and its bleak, almost forgotten camp.

Whether he understood it or not, that's what my son saw happe i There may be similarities of purpose, even of motive, a great gulf divides us-my son and me.