Failing to address these issues will deepen the chasm between rural and urban areas, with ominous implications for national cohesion.
For American Jews, Israel's catastrophic misadventure on the high seas this weekend has only deepened the chasm that increasingly splits them into two camps.
Whatever you call it, a threat to intervene against Turkey's mildly Islamist government posted on the general staff's website on April 27th has hurt democracy and deepened the chasm between the secular and the pious.
The decision to appoint a special three-judge commission to look into the memo, which came to light in October, had been widely anticipated, and appeared likely to further deepen the chasm between the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and the military.
If anything, this tactic is serving to deepen the chasm between communities and police – a relationship that is vital to maintaining a safe and secure city for all New Yorkers.
In the biggest challenge she has faced as secretary of state, Rice's diplomatic gamble has already deepened the chasm between the United States and the Islamic world, where recent surveys show that public opinion of Washington is at an all-time low and many feel the Bush administration is not genuinely committed to a fair peace, specialists and former diplomats said.
Specter's selfish act, and the Democrats' ill-judged hurrah for it, instead only deepens the chasm between voters and their representatives.
They must not be allowed the second triumph, further deepening the psychological chasm between reconstruction efforts and Iraqi civilians.
Trump's election divided an already fractured country, deepening the red-blue chasm that has become the defining feature of today's politics.
And there's no question in my mind that this has deepened the partisan chasm in our country and has added to the dysfunction in Congress," said Ann Compton, former ABC News journalist and member of the White House Press Corps, at the Lowell Lecture.
