11.   Smuggling and legitimate trading have a long tradition on this reservation, which straddles the border of the United States and Canada.

12.   Tanusevci actually straddles the border.

13.   The Flaming Lips, from Oklahoma City, have made a career of straddling the border between sense and nonsense.

14.   The documents were signed on a table literally straddling the border, as foreign dignitaries and invited guests looked on.

15.   The grim drumbeat of war seemed oddly distant Sunday from this sprawling Army post straddling the border of Kentucky and Tennessee.

16.   The reservation, in upstate New York, straddles the border on the St. Lawrence River between Quebec and New York.

17.   Yet so long as Mount Everest stands, majestically straddling the border of Nepal and Tibet, there will be people foolhardy enough to attempt to climb it.

18.   Americans will patrol a strip of the province that straddles the border between Macedonia and Serbia.

19.   America has always been filled with people who stoutly straddle the border of idealism and cynicism, and Election Day brings this out in stark relief.

20.   Because his life straddles the border, he would welcome the opportunity to become a American citizen while retaining his Mexican nationality.