Sentence examples for straddling the frontier from inspiring English sources

"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.

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

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.

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.

The deployment of peshmerga to Kobani illustrates the unprecedented degree of cooperation that has emerged between Kurdish groups across borders since Islamic State overran a third of Iraq this summer and proclaimed a caliphate straddling the frontier with Syria.

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

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.

This serene ensemble, not far from where Lancaster was born in 1917, looks like the brainchild of a squire just back from his Grand Tour, a commonplace expedition among the British, but not for those living in a patch of North America that at the end of the 18th century still straddled the Western 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.

Some work through collaboration, straddling the divide.