11.   The Pacific-wide trading partnership would span four continents and account for half the global economic output.

12.   The ripple of care and concern for a family in mourning quickly spanned the continents.

13.   The United States spans a continent, and its survival is not in doubt.

14.   With a mountain of evidence heaped upon him from a dark journey spanning the continent.

15.   A court convicted two Islamic militants Thursday of belonging to a support network spanning continents that provided false identification documents to other militants.

16.   A committee of bishops set by the Synod had earlier presented him with an eight-point indictment related to fraud allegations spanning three continents.

17.   After a year of legal battles that spanned two continents, Krueger agreed last month to be extradited.

18.   Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch managing editor Foster Davis, whose career spanned three continents over three decades, died of cancer Sunday.

19.   It was the end of an odyssey spanning two continents - and it was pure gold.

20.   It will span every continent and require varied contributions from many nations.