It is also a vital Western ally: a stable, moderate Muslim democracy straddling Europe and Asia.
Straddling the whole performance, though, both physically and emotionally, are three of the actors.
Or consider the recent history of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a forest park straddling Belarus and Poland.
The experience at Three Forks Ranch, straddling the Colorado-Wyoming border, is decidedly more cosseting (and adults-only).
But it remains to be seen whether any of them will match Pink Floyd's universe-straddling success.
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Lewis was the sole bidder on the Olmos Block, named after the geologic formation straddling the border.
Operators also have to balance the demands of students straddling childhood and adulthood, educators and overprotective parents.
Any change in the batteries would have to be incorporated into the Dreamliner's complex, globe-straddling supply chain.
In 1980 Amoco found a billion-barrel oilfield that extended onto a ranch Anschutz owned straddling the Utah-Wyoming border.
Straddling a shield wire, Ti crawls along a transmission line looking for everything from high grass to low trees.
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Mr Fares, significantly, is also chief of a Sunni tribe straddling Syria's eastern border with Iraq, our correspondent adds.
It appears that the administration, much like Musharraf himself, is straddling the fence.
Is there some reason why a retail presence straddling several countries should work better in Central than in Western Europe?
Frankfurters, in particular, are proud of the huge chemical complex straddling the river Main at Hoechst, west of the city.
" In a shrinking world, he says, straddling cultures "keeps me inspired.
With land straddling the A11, he worries about being able to cross.
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Analysts describe Surface as straddling the line between tablet and PC by featuring a tablet form with a multi-touch keyboard and USB port.
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The 2005 NRW election gave rise to the Left, exhibited low voter turnout, and left the traditional catch-all parties straddling right-and-left of center.
General Description The Three Sisters Biosphere Reserve represents the essentially undisturbed landscape straddling the crest of the central Cascade Range (Oregon).
The Wayuu community inhabits the Guajira Peninsula straddling Colombia and Venezuela.
But morphing from collections to consulting took heaps of courage, and given the inherent conflict of interest, there could be no straddling the two for long.
Nor have any of them resorted to the pathetic, last-ditch trick of donning leather outfits and straddling Harleys and biking out to meet the common man.
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Co-founded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley in 1996, Drive-By Truckers already had a firm musical base, straddling the line between Southern culture celebration and critique.
From Velazquez in the seventeenth century, through Goya straddling the eighteenth and nineteenth, to Picasso in the twentieth, Spain has the proudest of traditions in art.
For nearly a century, between 1560 and 1640, this bilateral trade would earn Portugal fabulous wealth and make Macau a linchpin in her globe-straddling network of trade.
If his office seems like a snapshot of the traditional meeting the modern, then Mr Djerrkura's skills in straddling both worlds have never been more in demand.
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The virtual world is possible because everything is physically connected by and travels through the globe-straddling weave of cables placed on the bottom of all the oceans.
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However Rhodri Thomas urges caution as he looked out of the vast expanse of bracken on the slopes below Stanidge Edge straddling the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
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These second-generation migrants do a great job straddling both worlds.
While manufacturers of fixed-line phones were trying to come to grips with cellular technology, Nokia and Ericsson came out of almost nowhere to become, within a decade, globe-straddling corporations.
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