After all, when it comes to the rhetoric, the chancellor and his Labour shadow seem poles apart.

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The FTC and Wyndham are poles apart on their estimates of the effect of the credit-card thefts.

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Cullen believes the perception of Widnes and the actuality reality of the situation he finds himself in are poles apart.

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The two are poles apart on the crucial issue of the economy and how to tackle the economic crisis in Catalonia.

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"The good thing is, we're not poles apart in brand imagery and there's no overlap between our vehicles, " points out Pawan Goenka, the ex-GM executive who heads Mahindra's auto and farm-equipment business and now chairs SsangYong.

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Four of these cover the whole world, apart from the poles.

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The fence consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles.

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It looks like a normal lake - apart from the rooftops, willow trees and power poles jutting from the muddy water.

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