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 name of the gulf, historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf after the land of Persia ( Iran ), has been disputed by some Arab countries since the 1960s.

Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

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.

He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for " The Two Cultures ", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and " literary intellectuals ".

To El-Edrisi it was known as () " graded ascent ", whence the modern name of the gulf and the town of Salum.

During his incumbency, Carstens was well known for hiking Germany in order to decrease the gulf between politics and the people.

Formerly known as Drunks Bay, it was used as a drying out area for inebriated crews before they ventured out of the gulf.

The northern coast of the island is also on the south side of the large gulf known as the Bay of Mecklenburg, which Wismar Bay enters in to.

The gulf saratoga, Scleropages jardinii, is a freshwater bony fish native to Australia and New Guinea, one of two species of fishes sometimes known as Australian arowanas, the other being the saratoga ( S. leichardti ).

The other, known as Motiva, combined the eastern and gulf coast operations of Shell Oil and Star Enterprise, itself a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Texaco.

In medieval times, the gulf was known as the Gulf of Lepanto.

Numerous beaches dot the shores of the gulf, many of them well known for swimming and surfing.

Some particular common or known animals in the Gulf include bottlenose and common dolphins, the latter of which sometimes are seen to aggregate into " super schools " of 300-500 animals or more, while various species of whales as well as orcas are also a relatively common sight, ( there are approximately 25 species of marine mammals in the gulf ).

It derived its importance mainly from its harbour, which ( according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ) was the gulf on the Tyrrhenian Sea now known as the Gulf of Spezia or La Spezia Gulf, and not merely the estuary of the Macra as some authors have supposed.

* Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta, a gulf of the Ionian Sea

To the Romans, the gulf was also known as Thermaicus or Thermaeus sinus (" Gulf of Therma ") and as Macedonicus sinus (" The Gulf of Macedon ", or " The Macedonian Gulf ").

The area surrounding the gulf comprises a geopolitical subregion of Colombia known as Urabá Antioquia.

In sum, the name, Gökova, ( possibly derived from Cova, the designation by which the area was known in Ottoman times ) is mentioned as " Djova " in some recent English navigation charts and alternately is used for the gulf, for the plain at the end of the same gulf, for a township situated in the same plain, and as a casual term covering the emerging resort area centered in the coastal town of Akyaka.

This gulf, which has the name of the ' Codanian ,' is filled with islands ; the most famous among which is Scandinavia, of a magnitude as yet unascertained: the only portion of it at all known is inhabited by the nation of the Hilleviones, who dwell in 500 villages, and call it a second world: it is generally supposed that the island of Eningia is of not less magnitude.

The first people that are known of here are the Seres, so famous for the wool that is found in their forests (...) and the nation of the Attacori on the gulf of that name, a people protected by their sunny hills from all noxious blasts (...) After the Attacori, we find the nations of the Phruri and the Tochari, and, in the interior, the Casiri, a people of India, who look toward the Scythians, and feed on human flesh.

The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf (), is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece.