The word "straddled" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to sit or stand with a leg on either side of something. For example, "The young boy straddled the fence before jumping off."
Whether you sit astride a mass of power in Westminster or in banking, in Whitehall or in Brussels, Wycliffe's words will become ever more insistent," said the MP, who before sitting astride the Westminster power mass for nine years as a Tory bravely straddled the beast of fund management for six.
Throughout her long career as an Observer photographer, Jane Bown, who has died aged 89, produced a consistent and singular body of work that straddled many areas of photojournalism.
The first is that he straddled the two worlds of thinking and doing.
Squabbles over the river have been peaceful since 1934, when Arizona's governor dispatched troops to intimidate Californian engineers working on a dam that straddled the state line.
The chapter on the windows whose intense dark blues and reds were meant not to admit light but to spiritualise it, brings the reader closest to the strange line they straddled between the material and the immaterial.There is little, by contrast, that Mr Hollis does not know about his characters.
Given the overwhelming importance of the economy, the competence of the coalition must thus be the central plank of their strategy, leaving less room for the fine detail of differentiation from the Tories.The attacks on Labour straddled two big themes in the speech: economic competence and the evils of vested interests.
And Edison, like Mr Ovshinsky, straddled the fields of energy and information technology: he originally made his name with the invention of the quadruplex, a device that increased the capacity of telegraph lines, before moving on to electrification.Another similarity between the two inventors is that both thought of their inventions as entire systems.
Hillary Clinton's involvement, alongside her treasury counterpart, Timothy Geithner, raises the status of America's participation, which, the Americans hope, will encourage more progress on issues especially climate change that straddled the remits of the forum's precursors.On the global economy, the two sides are already broadly in agreement.
Such charges chime with a chorus of calls by Mr Ahmadinejad's allies, including the IRGC chief, to ban the parties outright and jail their leaders.Some testimony also implicated close relatives of Hashemi Rafsanjani, another former president and a pragmatic conservative who has long straddled Iran's complex power structure, playing off its factions to his advantage.
Amdocs, an Israeli-owned multinational that produces automated billing software, has already moved into the new site at Nazareth.The last Palestinian intifada (uprising), which ended in 2005, scuppered Mr Wertheimer's plans for an industrial park that would have straddled Israel's border with Gaza and for a similar complex in the Jordanian port of Aqaba that abuts Israel.
Her life straddled the transformation of Indian families and society, and she wound up suffering again when she became a saas herself.
