Whichever path he chooses, he cannot continue to straddle the issue.

While many economies straddle several of these, most economies fall primarily into one of them.

The poor security situation in western Darfur is compounded by issues that straddle the Sudan Chad border.

And so it's not going to break very easily, but if it does, virtually every piece in this machine can be swapped out and replaced with a hex wrench and a screwdriver.

The Commonwealth's 53 member States straddle nearly every continent in seeking to promote peace, strong democracies, good governance, gender equality and sustainable development.

We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others.

The EU s high representative would straddle the European Commission and the European Council to look after foreign affairs and security, and the European Parliament would have more power.

Among them, two governance issues straddle the two draft resolutions, to which the European Union attaches particular importance combating illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, and addressing the conservation of vulnerable marine ecosystems.

But, in multi faceted talks that straddle several different sectors (for example, agriculture, manufactures, and services) and diverse rules (such as anti dumping and subsidies), countries have negotiated concessions with one another in various areas.

Unfortunately, one of Europe s key strategic assets the European countries, in particular Ukraine, that straddle the great energy corridors that will deliver more and more of the fossil fuel resources of the Middle East and Central Asia to the world is probably its most neglected.

But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage, we move from a time where our economic success, our sense of individual prowess and well being is directly linked to how much of this we consume, to a time when actually our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability.