Mr. Volsky belonged to a generation of officials whose careers straddled the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Taylor was an old-fashioned screen actress whose career straddled the decline of old Hollywood and the surge of the rapacious new celebrity industry.

Pritchett's career has straddled a paradoxical time.

Both men's careers have straddled the worlds of commercial and politically committed theater.

In another age, his womanizing would have been overlooked, and in fact, Kealty's political career had straddled those ages, the old and the new.

Johann Philipp Abelin was a German chronicler whose career straddled the 16th and 17th centuries.

His lengthy career straddled both the amateur and professional eras and he had a job as a carpenter.

Mr. Greenspan is part of the play's ensemble of esteemed character actors whose careers straddle mainstream stages and downtown theater.

His long career straddles a period of major political and economic change.

That achievement was all the more remarkable because his career at the top straddled a succession of regimes and several abrupt changes in policy.