straddling

• “Libertarians and authoritarians have long argued over the role of government in straddling this distinction.”

  The Guardian: Britain's drugs hypocrisy is a giant self-inflicted wound

• “Hicks almost succeeds in straddling the two, blending in some smart generational satire.”

  07 « November « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon

• “Yes, we have taxation without representation, and to sit idly by and let our Dem ‘representatives’ get away with fence-straddling is not an option for me.”

  Think Progress » “Almost 60 percent of voters

• “Under U.S. leadership we now have a new treaty which protects some of our most endangered fish; those are fish that migrate between various countries and parts of the world -- they're called straddling stocks.”

  Press Briefing By Katie Mcginty

• “Based upon a High Resolution Airborne Magnetic ( "HRAM") and Gravity survey that was acquired and interpreted by InterOil in 2006-2007 in PPL 237, an anomaly similar to that defining the recent 8 TCF Elk/Antelope reef discovery (approximately 60km due east) has been identified as straddling the boundaries of these two adjoining PPLs.”

  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases

• “Many lists include all sorts of things that are purely optional and only occur when a person is "straddling".”

  Where are your feet? Cost of Living

• “He's kind of straddling the lines between alligator, lizard, and dinosaur, too.”

  Archive 2008-12-01

• “I think the images with her dad where she ` s looking into his eyes like he ` s some boyfriend like they ` re kind of straddling each other - I think those are a little more creepy for me.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2008

• “I think that the way Mike Huckabee has been kind of straddling the whole issue whether -- he did not answer directly whether he thought Mormonism was a cult.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2007

• “If that was not your intent, perhaps you might want to swap out "straddling" for j"juggling" or some such ledd-evocative word.”

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