In short, the United Kingdom is suffering a gaping leadership vacuum at a time when the nation's very future is at stake.
And certainly there appears to be a gaping talent vacuum beneath the class of 2005: just look at the current squad, in which 13 out of 23 players are within the class of 2005 age group, and only Marcos Rojo is under 25.
Democrats say they fear that the Clintons' persistent troubles not only leave the party with a gaping leadership vacuum, but also with unwanted attention on a former president who is trying to salvage his damaged reputation and a new senator from New York who is trying to find her footing.
Then, the Muslim Brotherhood, shrewdly quiet through this ordeal, will jump on the opportunity to expand its networks and take advantage of a gaping power vacuum.
The result is both the real potential for autocracy and a gaping power vacuum in the Democratic party.
The problem now is that he is practically impossible to sack: his beatification means removal would leave such a gaping power vacuum that the republic could slip once more into chaos.
The real fear — the dead certainty, it seemed at the time — was that if the Americans ever did go home, they would leave behind a vacuum so gaping that Iraq's hungry and paranoid neighbors would rush in and fight it out in the middle of Baghdad Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkeyy.
The real fear the dead certainty, it seemed at the time was that if the Americans ever did go home, they would leave behind a vacuum so gaping that Iraq's hungry and paranoid neighbors would rush in and fight it out in the middle of Baghdad Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkeyy.
"There is a vacuum in the field," says the Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, "a big, gaping hole".
