The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

`` Mom '' Marr, as the more than 80 men at the center call her, is the link that helps to bridge the gulf between alcoholics and the outside world and between parolees and society.

Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves.

Cylipenus, probably the Bay of Kiel, is described, and from there a gulf called Lagnus, which is on the frontier of the Cimbri.

At the semi-enclosed bays with major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and head of Bothnian gulf with close mouths of Lule, Tornio and Kemi, the salinity is considerably lower.

This is a gulf which no human power can bridge.

The gulf coast is highly populated.

The area of the gulf is.

The gulf is relatively shallow with the depth decreasing from the entrance to the gulf to the continent.

The gulf is usually frozen from late November to late April ; the freezing starts in the east and gradually proceeds to the west.

The northern coast of the gulf is high and winding, with abundant small bays and skerries only a few large bays ( Vyborg ) and peninsulas ( Hanko and Porkkala ).

The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (— Ḫalīdj ʾUmān ; alternatively known as خليج مکران —, Ḫalīdj Makrān ; in Persian: دریای عمان Daryā-ye Ommān, or دریای مکران Daryā-ye Makrān ; in Khaleej Oman ) is a strait ( and not an actual gulf ) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf.

# Île de la Gonâve, the largest offshore island of mainland Hispaniola, is located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in Haiti's Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea ( the largest gulf of the Antilles ).

The land is flat, becoming swampy near the shores of the gulf, and is composed mostly of alluvial soils washed down from the mountains.

The gulf is shallow and the water rich in fish and mollusks.

The shoreline is regular with no deep estuary, gulf, or natural harbor.

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

Siraf, an ancient Sassanid port that was located on the northern shore of the gulf, located in what is now the Iranian province of Bushehr, is an example of such commercial port.

There is great variation in color, size, and type of the bird species that call the gulf home.

The underwater features of the seabed sculptured during the lower sea levels of the ice ages make the gulf a semi-enclosed sea bounded to the south and east by underwater banks.

The Gulf of Venezuela is a gulf of the Caribbean Sea bounded by the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Falcón and by Guajira Department, Colombia.

It is bounded on the north by the municipality of Hagonoy, on the west by the municipality of Kiblawan, on the south by the municipalities of Sulop and Malalag and on the east by the Davao gulf.

Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

The loggerhead turtle nests and hatches on north-coast beaches around Rethymno and Chania, and south-coast beaches along the gulf of Mesara.

In the east, the gulf ends with Neva Bay and on the west merges with the Baltic Sea.

The gulf borders Pakistan and Iran on the north, Oman on the south, and the United Arab Emirates on the west.

Morocco's identity as an Arab Muslim state has also strengthened ties with the gulf countries as a result of 9 / 11 and the " war on terror ".

A great example of this symbiosis are the mangroves in the gulf, which require tidal flow and a combination of fresh and salt water for growth, and act as nurseries for many crabs, small fish, and insects ; these fish and insects are the source of food for many of the marine birds that feed on them.

They are as crucial an indicator of biological health on the surface of the water, as the corals are to biological health of the gulf in deeper waters.

* Documents on the Persian gulf

Only the construction of long moles at Ras Tanura has opened the Saudi coast on the gulf to seagoing tankers.

* Abu Dhabi Defence Force-Drawing on tremendous oil wealth accumulated in the early 1960s, the Emir of Abu Dhabi gave high priority to the development of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force ( ADDF ) when the British withdrawal from the gulf was announced.

The existence of the name in southern Utah, United States, and on the gulf coast of Mexico, has given rise to theories of other locations and wider bounds for the old Indian empire.

The coastline on the gulf includes the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Bonny.

The Gulf of Aden (, ) is a gulf located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.

Historically the Gulf of Aden was known as " The Gulf of Berbera ", named after the ancient Somali port city of Berbera on the south-side of the gulf.

It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name ( Gulf of Edremit ), with its town center a few kilometers inland, and is an important center of trade, along with the other towns that are situated on the same gulf ( namely Ayvalık, Gömeç, Burhaniye and Havran ).

Harrisse believed the large estuary just west of the line on the Cantino map was that of the Rio Maranhão ( this estuary is now the Baía de São Marcos and the river is now the Mearim ), whose flow is so weak that its gulf does not contain fresh water.

This map depicts the current rivers and coastline and certain features have changed over the years, notably Miletus, Heracleia, and Myus were on the south side of a gulf and Priene on the north side ; the river Maeander has since filled in the gulf.