One of these, he said, was "the 19th Century notion of the sphere of influence".
If Europe doesn't get its act together, "the sphere of influence is going to be run from Moscow, " Mr. Hill says.
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And I wonder how many countries we would have to let be swallowed up into the sphere of influence for Putin to be satisfied.
Both groups will complain about the sphere of influence infringement, but at the end of the day the geographic prominence of the former Soviet countries will be the prize.
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The First Lady, the official hostess of the White House, can support a variety of issues her role, but the sphere of influence each woman has shifts depending on the term.
If what Russia needs in order to regain its sense of self-respect is to reconstitute at least the sphere of influence that it enjoyed when it was the Soviet Union, I'm not sure we can give that to them, even if we have the best desires in the world.
But the book's main analytical and polemical point is tellingly made: in the absence of a Western counterbalance, Myanmar is falling almost inexorably into the Chinese sphere of influence.
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The Yalta conference that took place early in 1945 between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, paved the way for the subjugation of Poland and later countries such as Hungary and Czechoslovakia into the Soviet sphere of influence.
He has also described Ukraine and Belarus as being within the Russian sphere of influence.
His wish to eliminate the American sphere of influence and bring other actors such as China, Iran and Russia into play is more than evident.
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Obama has ceded the Russians a sphere of influence in their near abroad in exchange for the New START agreement and other marginal concessions, and the Russians have gotten smarter aiming to undermine emerging democracies like Georgia in subtle ways.
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In the long-term, the reestablishment of a Turkish sphere of influence in the Arab world in Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt through the Muslim Brotherhood will be extremely dangerous for Israel.
If this issue and other grievances become part of a wider bargaining scene, the Iranians may try to get the Americans to acknowledge an Iranian sphere of influence in Iraq, which the Americans remain loth to do.
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For some time, China has been trying to increase its presence in the United States' sphere of influence and has increased trade and military ties with many countries in the region.
Myanmar is now deftly playing the same multi-alignment game mastered by countries such as Kazakhstan in trying to escape the Soviet-Russian sphere of influence: courting all sides and gaining whatever one can from multiple great powers and neighbors while giving up as little autonomy as possible.
These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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It is simply not possible for the European Union to be united in what Russia considers to be its "sphere of influence" unless the Kremlin's gas leverage over the Continent is broken.
What we do know is that the primary foreign policy imperative for China is its sphere of influence in northeast Asia, not the regime per se.
If the M23 then struck a deal involving special privileges, Rwanda would acquire, through its unofficial alliance with the M23, a wider sphere of influence in an area rich in minerals.
Russia may not be trying to recreate an empire it has neither the energy, human resources or ideology for that but it is trying to prevent the West from entering its sphere of influence.
The United States strongly supports the Turkish route, although there is plenty of competition - not least from Russia, which still regards the former Soviet Caspian region as its sphere of influence.
Mr Putin runs the risk that more and more of the north Caucasus may slip into lawlessness and out of Moscow's sphere of influence.
And at the end of February Georgian musicians staged a concert, to bring attention to what they say is the danger of the new government dragging Georgia back into Russia's sphere of influence.
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The West would henceforth regard no area of the world as destined to forego its liberty simply because the Soviets claimed it to be within their sphere of influence.
It also demonstrates the fine line Facebook must walk as a high-profile and now public company likely to absorb criticism as it updates its services and aims for an even broader sphere of influence on the Web.
Tory international affairs spokesman Gary Streeter told Today that it was "perfectly legitimate" for Mr Murray to criticise "the way things are working within his sphere of influence".
During the initial reaction to a PR crisis, it is vitally important to ensure that, although it is a challenge in the Internet age to exert any control over the general discourse, communications within your sphere of influence are tightly controlled.
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Still, Russia sees the EU as a competitor in its sphere of influence and reacts fiercely to any interference, such as Belarus being told that recognising South Ossetia and Abkhazia would hurt its prospects with the EU. That the summit was followed by a conference on Nabucco, a gas pipeline meant to bypass Russia in the south, was just another irritation.
This morning, Murdoch promoted James, the younger of his two sons, to deputy chief operating officer, expanding his sphere of influence, previously limited to Europe and Asia, to the entire globe.
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As a young journalist straying into public affairs, I found myself in Antony Fisher's sphere of influence and once met the man himself.
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