But are you actually seeing a substantial narrowing of the differences already before the President sits down with these folks?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But ideological differences were narrowing by the 1960s and became smaller still after the collapse of Soviet communism.

ECONOMIST: POLITICS BRIEF: Empty vessels? | The

In the future, victory will not be decided so much on product quality, since product quality differences are narrowing.

FORBES: Digital rules

The differences kept narrowing and it seemed that a round or two of negotiation could end the matter in a positive way.

ECONOMIST: Middle East divided

If we look instead at more recent data the differences are narrowing as European deals start to pick up in the second half of the period.

WSJ: Shining a Spotlight on Venture Capital

The statement will be welcomed by many observers as evidence of a narrowing in the policy differences between EU nations and the US which prompted the collapse of Kyoto talks in The Hague in last year.

BBC: G8 progress on climate change

Although transatlantic differences have emerged over fiscal policy, they are narrowing over regulation.

ECONOMIST: The G20