Sentence examples for straddle frontiers from inspiring English sources

Disputes over oilfields that straddle frontiers have been resolved.

How pertinent in any event are many conventional measures of international competition in a world where large companies straddle national frontiers and people move easily from one country to another?

They can also gather invaluable intelligence from, and spread our influence to, the tribes that straddle the frontier.

The dispute ended when the two countries agreed to hold talks, but that was not likely to be the last dispute, because fields containing millions of barrels of oil straddle the frontier.

Few objects straddle so many frontiers, not least the frontier between art and craft, as a fan in the hands of Mr. Le Guen.

"And this is Iraq," he said, straddling the frontier.

Afghanistan and the UN objected that this would endanger civilian lives and divide the Pushtun tribes straddling the frontier.

West of the Kura-Aras Lowland rises the Lesser Caucasus Range, which is extended southward by the Dzhavakhet Range and the Armenian Highland, the latter straddling the frontier with Turkey.

The biggest question-mark hangs over the Shibaa farms, an agricultural zone straddling the frontier between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied portion of Syria.

Envoys of Louis XV greeted her at the border, where she entered a pavilion built for the remise on a riverine island that straddled the frontier of the two kingdoms.

Gibraltar's airport will get a new terminal straddling the frontier and there will be direct flights from Spanish cities and, vitally for such a poor region, for tourists from all round Europe.