Before the Republican convention, McKinley had been a "straddle bug" on the currency question, favoring moderate positions on silver such as accomplishing bimetallism by international agreement.
These poses are a straddle hold, a 1-arm push-up, a leg extension hold, a full split front, a full spilt side and a high kick.
Here is a man straddling the old world of tangible assets and the new economy of digital value creation.
The "Times" likes to think of itself both as the newspaper of record and as an arbiter of standards, which, when you come to think about it, is an impossible straddle.
This is an issue – straddling political and ideological boundaries and putting flesh on the abstractions of communities, big societies and social mobility – that Miliband and the Labour leadership, encouraged by the stirrings in Bristol, should seize.
Taiwan is an island straddling the Tropic of Cancer in the West Pacific and has both subtropical and tropical climates.
This posture is a very difficult straddle for a Republican.
There is a difference between straddling and respecting others who do not share your beliefs.
Culturally, Belgium is a heterogeneous country straddling the border between the Romance and Germanic language families of western Europe.
Ahmed still drives a battered old car, but at 30 he is a movie star, straddling different worlds, reshaping them in his own fashion.
