There is a narrow dividing line between reasoning and rationalisation.
Whether the narrow divide brings a new impulse to reach across the aisle or bitter gridlock will determine President-elect George W. Bush's chances of legislative success.
Ms. Rodriguez said there was a narrow divide between some students classified as special education and those who simply struggled in math and reading.
These men, with their anachronistic struggle to bridge an increasingly narrow divide, should be the object of surprise and curiosity -- not the men who are getting along with the business of being friends.
Instead, the soldiers eyeball one another across the narrow divide, with thousands more massing to lay claim to the contested oil fields nearby, seemingly bracing for another long separatist war.
And, with such a narrow divide between the two parties, they emphasize that the dynamic of the presidential race could tip the advantage, depending on which candidates are nominated and how their campaigns play out.
However, the problem with this policy, as Husain and Ifejika spiritedly raised with their boss in the final segment of his tenure, is that there is a narrow divide between diversity and divisiveness.
Demystifying its hidden decision-making process has been one of the court's aims, though as Lady Hale, the only female justice, cautioned: "It's a very narrow dividing line between improving public understanding … and diminishing the dignity and respect the court should have.
"See the barbed wire wrapped round the poles?" Sure enough, a strand of rusted wire snaked menacingly up each pole, protection against a sometimes lethal game of Capture the Flag carried on from time to time between the soldiers who have stared at each other across the narrow divide day and night for 27 years.
As Americans have lived with NAFTA's effects since its Jan . 1 , 1994start, public opinion has shifted dramatically, from a narrow divide during the 1993 NAFTA debate to overwhelming opposition today.
