Sentence examples for effort to straddle from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney's attacks on Mr. Obama are part of his campaign's effort to straddle two missions: keeping the pressure on the president, while lashing out at his chief Republican rival, Newt Gingrich.

The suggested changes — which are voluntary rules — are an effort to straddle the gaping divide between public sector unions, their supporters and public pension consultants on one side and, on the other, economists who have criticized the official fund disclosures as misleading and fiscally unsound.

But Clinton's effort to straddle her outreach between those starkly opposed voting blocs has created its own grief.

The latest volatility and vulnerability in European markets may well mark the end of Mrs. Merkel's efforts to straddle the fence between shielding Greece from default and avoiding an irrevocable step toward deeper economic and fiscal union between the euro zone countries.

It's all an effort to test whether audiences are ready to embrace even more virtual avatars — including ones that don't try to straddle the uncanny valley quite as blatantly as Miquela and her crew.

Herein lies the problem of Wolf's admirable attempt to straddle two worlds.

Some of the antifraud efforts even appear to straddle the bounds of legality: disabling fake bank Web sites used to dupe the unwitting, or breaking into swindlers' e-mail accounts to warn victims already on the hook.

On other issues, Brown tries to straddle.

You have to straddle the fence".

It tries to straddle both sides, you know?

Mr. Obama, a progressive Democrat, still tries to straddle the line.