The President and the top opposition leaders are men of talent and imagination and there is no great ideological gap separating them.

The ideological gap between these men and their conservative rivals has become all but imperceptible.

When there are regional ties, they do not always bind across ideological and party gaps.

But with the ideological gap as wide as ever, is there really any middle ground?

But the ideological gap between them is much wider than this patch of trampled grass.

Many social conservatives say the ideological gap cannot be bridged.

Tense negotiations with unions followed, but they broke down as the ideological gap between the two sides widened.

Missionary and Communist ambitions simply were irreconcilable and the wide ideological gap could not be bridged.

The ideology is recognized by observers as a comprehensive response to the ideological gap left by the social problems that resulted from China's market economic reforms.

To make deals with the Democratic leadership in Washington, the president-elect is going to have to bridge some ideological gaps.