Sentence examples for straddle and from inspiring English sources

The latest to come out of that series is Tina Satter's "House of Dance," being presented in association with Ms. Satter's company, Half Straddle, and the Abrons Arts Center.

Meanwhile, depending on external events, the broader disagreement on foreign policy between the Tory realists and neocons which Mr Cameron has tried to straddle, and which anyway seems somewhat moot in opposition may become stark.

This clip is directed by Sundance award winner Kahlil Joseph, and in it Twigs, like Madonna, grapples with Catholicism's virgin/whore complex – she's both the girl staring helplessly into the cold sterile world of the execution chamber and the witchy dominatrix disrupting the ritual to straddle and claim the dying prisoner.

At the time there were two common methods of clearing a bar: the scissors jump, where the athlete threw first one leg and then the other over the bar before landing on his feet, as modelled here by 1920 gold-medallist Richmond Landon, and the straddle, and its variant the western roll, which saw the athlete fling himself over the bar face down, as demonstrated by 1964 winner Valeriy Brumel.

Drawing on our case analysis, we theorize how issue-based fields cohere and crystallise, particularly how they build an institutional infrastructure based upon the infrastructure of the mature field which they straddle and which the relevant issue impacts upon.

"The Justice Department, DEA, FBI ― for them to try to straddle and figure out how they're supposed to enforce laws in some places and not in others — they're gonna guard against transporting these drugs across state lines, but you've got the entire Pacific corridor where this is legal — that is not gonna be tenable".

It made Thomas furious to be straddled and repositioned.

He survived all these years by bobbing, weaving, straddling and never making an irrevocable decision.

There is a difference between straddling and respecting others who do not share your beliefs.

Out of 99 straddles, 98 times they know they've straddled and maybe two times there's a question out of 100.

Straddling and making the trade-off between work life, family life and personal life during the program was difficult.