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In the middle of an unbridgeable divide, Lincoln kept calm.

Europe is a policy area where there is an unbridgeable divide.

Whether the differences between the plans lie across an unbridgeable divide will not be clear until Congress begins debate.

Partisan difference didn't always seem like an unbridgeable divide.

At the same time, the bill's architects found a way to finesse what had seemed an unbridgeable divide.

A majority of House Republicans remain opposed to such a provision, creating a potentially unbridgeable divide.

They are evidence of the cosmopolitan Islamic world that political powers, intent on creating a myth of unbridgeable divides, want to bury.

But alongside these glimmers of hope lie deep misunderstandings and enmities that reinforce the impression of an unbridgeable divide.

To understand why she and like-minded reformers have arrived at this position, you have to unravel the seemingly unbridgeable divides within the C of E.

Philosophers usually blame Descartes for the deeply ingrained assumption that there is an unbridgeable divide between the physical and the psychological, between the brain and the mind.

She challenged a stereotype that in antiquity "theory and practice were on opposite sides of an unbridgeable divide and that science and technology were marginal in ancient society."

Samuel becomes friends with the son of the owner of the plantation on which he is a slave but, like Sephy and Callum, their friendship is across an unbridgeable divide.

Yet the strikes do not reflect an unbridgeable divide between capital and labour: rather, nearly all South Koreans are capitalists, and many of the strikers had voted for Mr Lee.

Here, our fearsome foursome sup before a luminous rendering of a portion of the Great Wall, a uniquely appropriate symbol of the potentially unbridgeable divide between them and their hosts.

As the slow-motion crisis inches towards breaking point, France and the European institutions are on one side of an unbridgeable divide, and Germany and its increasingly restive people on the other.

Shattering the winter silence, even as they delight more than 83,000 riders a year and pump tourist money into remote towns around the park, the machines have cut a deep and seemingly unbridgeable divide.

At the heart of Triple E's recent life, and of Mr. Brenna's vision of a boy in trouble, is the unbridgeable divide between him and those who try to help him.

The seemingly unbridgeable divide over whale hunting that was on display earlier this week at the 62nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission had as much to do with clashing cultures as international politics or other factors.

Libertarians’ disenchantment has become obvious; less widely appreciated is that “there is now an apparently unbridgeable divide between traditional conservatives and the Bush administration on major policy matters,” writes George W. Carey, a professor of government at Georgetown.

On the face of it, this is an unbridgeable divide; but other delegates suggested the G77/China bloc of developing countries would probably settle for about 30% provided other elements of a package - such as plentiful finance - were also on offer.

The letter, which crystallises what appears to be an unbridgeable divide between conservative “blue dog” and “progressive” Democrats, follows a series of recent White House hints that it would be prepared to junk the public option in order to get an overall bill passed.

But Dr. Shanker and his colleagues insist that Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh's experiments suggest that there is not an unbridgeable divide between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom, as orthodox linguists believe, but rather a gradation of linguistic skills.

The compelling nature of nostalgia is the intense pleasure of its pains, and so the dotted rhythm that announces his G-major Sonata (D. 894) is a cry of loneliness sent out across an unbridgeable divide and at the same time an expression of self-sufficient serenity.

There seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between writing and art.

But he also makes it clear that race is not an unbridgeable gulf.

There was no more than a foot of space between us, but it seemed an unbridgeable gulf.

Anything to narrow the unbridgeable gulf between greatness and me.

They cannot prevent the gap between rich and poor from becoming an unbridgeable gulf.

At the same time, though, these artists acknowledge the huge, unbridgeable gulf between their vocation and sports.

Or is it an ironic observation on the unbridgeable gulf between cultures and classes in America?

She stared at him across the ten yards that separated them, thirty feet of unbridgeable gulf.

But modern artists hate unbridgeable gulfs, and refuse to accept them.

As such, it demonstrates the unbridgeable gulf between Christianity and totemic religion.

I was terribly fortunate," she told him, her eyes focused across unbridgeable gulfs of space and time. "

When physical objects can be hurled across the unbridgeable gulf between galactic clusters, at some speed much greater than light.

Leading article: An unbridgeable gulf in economic thinking

Between zero and the smallest number you can think of is an unbridgeable gulf, a discontinuity for the operation of division.

A most unbridgeable gulf indeed," commented Roger de Conde, drily. "

Between him and the returning officer the STV opens an unbridgeable gulf.

Yet, Mr. Gingrich's critics see an unbridgeable gulf between his talk and his actions.

"The contrast between that and the deeply moving impact statement from 17-year-old Emily Brady's mother, a nurse, forms an unbridgeable gulf.

Despite the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between interrogator and interrogated, Toye became friends with one man, whose son maintained the friendship after his father’s death.

An unbridgeable gulf.

There is an unbridgeable gulf between questions of what is and questions of what ought to happen.

Moore challenges the still prevalent conviction that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds.

It was a statement, not a question--a statement defining an unbridgeable gulf be-tween life values.

So the fact I wanted to do something that had imagination right at the centre was already a big leap for him, and this remained an unbridgeable gulf."

His smile is warm, his tone mild, his gestures welcoming even as he talks of the unbridgeable gulf between blacks and whites.