Without sanctions to police global imbalances, the French step forward will take us halfway across a yawning chasm.

The world is headed to the chasm of its existence.

The figures show the chasm that exists between rich and poor countries where motherhood is concerned.

The worldwide impact of QE has only aggravated the chasm, reflected by the rifts among the G 20 nations.

The chasm between these two worlds was the topic of a post last week by blogger essa at the Uncategorizable Blog.

Today, it is crucial if we are to prevent an even greater chasm from dividing the world s haves and have nots.

This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

Signs of the American economy s perilous condition are everywhere from yawning fiscal and current account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.

With foreign borrowing financing a yawning trade deficit, the US economy as a whole spent more than it earned, which both caused and hid structural problems.

Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America s weak fiscal position.

If recession drags on and Americans continue to blame trade agreements erroneously for growing unemployment, falling wages, and yawning inequality, opposition to these deals will grow.

It should by now be abundantly clear to all of us that we cannot cross this chasm of development financing by taking a series of small steps.

But social media can also be used effectively to demobilize people, by reducing the chasm between the psychology and power of political leadership and that of the masses.

Erdogan must have known that, by trying in this way to shield Iran, he is opening a wider chasm with the EU and obviously with the United States.

Yet this has not diminished the pressure to reduce the yawning gap in income between developed and developing countries that has shaped global debates for over a half century.

The gap between rich and poor, already a challenge to our ideas of social justice, will become a chasm that mere equality of opportunity will be powerless to bridge.

Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.

True, the economy was slowing when Bush took office, but he also inherited an enormous fiscal surplus, amounting to 2 of GDP, which he transformed into a yawning deficit, equaling 4.5 of GDP.

Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America s yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar.

A new declaration was badly needed when we began work on it one year ago. Today, it is crucial if we are to prevent an even greater chasm from dividing the world s haves and have nots.

So it's this here, this little gap that you have to close, as Jeffrey Moore calls it, Crossing the Chasm because, you see, the early majority will not try something until someone else has tried it first.

Essa asks How does the world of Internet users look to someone who is not connected? In a post called The other side of the chasm (キャズムの向こう側), the following explanation is proposed

But, while policies that reduced the atrocious poverty and narrowed the yawning income inequality that persisted throughout the 1990 s must surely be applauded, the welfare gains associated with this performance may prove to be weaker than hoped.

CAMBRIDGE Nothing endangers globalization more than the yawning governance gap the dangerous disparity between the national scope of political accountability and the global nature of markets for goods, capital, and many services that has opened up in recent decades.

We strongly support the proposal for the establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission, since this will go a long way in filling a yawning gap in the consolidation of sustainable peace and security in post conflict countries, particularly in Africa.

The continent s fastest growing economies are those that have been willing and able to allow yawning external gaps from 2000 to 2013 26 of GDP, on average, in Liberia, 17 in Mozambique, 14 in Chad, 11 in Sierra Leone, and 7 in Ghana.

But, while the G 7 countries, which dominate voting at the Bank, all declare their commitment to democracy and good governance and espouse promoting them as one of their central objectives there is a yawning gap between what they preach and what they practice.

Had the Bush administration fulfilled its commitments, Americans taxpayers would have benefited from the elimination of huge agricultural subsidies a real boon in this era of yawning budget deficits. Americans would have been better off as consumers, too, with increased access to a variety of low cost goods from poor countries.

In the realm of reality, the latest of many grand summits in Brussels has left a yawning gap between Europe and a fiscal union, as heads of state stripped much of the substance from the blueprint proposed by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and developed by the European Commission.