1.   Despite efforts on both sides to smooth over some rough edges, there is indeed a gaping ideological chasm between them.

2.   Exemplifying the ideological chasm that separates them, economic titans Alan Greenspan and Robert Reich next week will deliver dueling commencement addresses on opposite sides of the Charles River.

3.   In New York this year, as in much of the country, the election season lacked defining issues or ideological chasms.

4.   Rubin and others said that prospect appeared to be heightened by the ideological chasm between, and the solidarity within, the Democratic and Republican Parties.

5.   The ideological chasm between the White House and Congress seems to rule out the simple compromises that would address the problem.

6.   Full-scale negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland began in Belfast on Tuesday, with deeply entrenched opponents eyeing each other over an ideological chasm.