Sentence examples for bridge a divide from inspiring English sources

But the phrase is still used at times to describe species that bridge a divide between distinct ancestors and descendants.

I did, however, feel young and uncharacteristically flirty and spoke more animatedly than usual, as if to bridge a divide that separated me from contemporaries.

McCain described himself, in that speech and in his preamble to our interview, as a "realistic idealist" — a phrase meant to bridge a divide inside his party.

These previously undisclosed sessions, which take place nearly every other week just across the hall from the Oval Office, are designed to bridge a divide between his campaign headquarters in Chicago and his aides in Washington in preparing for what Mr. Obama and his team anticipate will be a grueling race against Mitt Romney.

On the crucial issue of electricity, Mr. Domenici and others say negotiators are still trying to bridge a divide between Southern and Western lawmakers who do not want utilities forced to join regional transmission groups and those from the Northeast and Midwest who see such groups as central to preventing future blackouts.

Schultz was touting his EFCA alternative as a "third way" to bridge a divide between two intractable sides.

Felicia R. Lee's cover article on interracial families, "Bridging a Divide" (April 30), brought back bittersweet memories.

As an economics professor with a populist streak, he bridges a divide between the technocrats who have returned from exile or remain abroad, and home-grown academics and former Qaddafi government officials.

Robert Herz, FASB's chairman, has argued that by presenting loans under both approaches, it is bridging a divide, not veering to extremes.The effect on some banks would be dramatic (see table).

Faye Bush, director of the New Town Florist Club, said her civil rights group started meetings last year with Latino groups to start bridging a divide that opened up as Latinos grew to a third of the city's population; blacks account for about 16percentt.

Nurses at St . Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital will go on strike on Jan. 3 unless last-ditch negotiations succeed in bridging a divide over wages, according to leaders in the New York State Nurses Association, which issued a 10-day strike warning early Thursday on behalf of 1,300 registered nurses at the hospital.