Critics fear it will dilute Ukraine's sovereignty and help return Ukraine to Moscow's sphere of influence.
One of these, he said, was "the 19th Century notion of the sphere of influence".
In recent years, Iran has expanded its sphere of influence to strategic points around the region.
He has also described Ukraine and Belarus as being within the Russian sphere of influence.
However, I strive to align the pleasure of producing and bringing profits with benefiting others in my sphere of influence.
Geopolitically, the U.S. and Europe do not want to lose Cyprus from their sphere of influence, nudging it closer to Russia.
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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"There is also the fear Myanmar and Cambodia will fall into Thailand's sphere of influence, " says Filipino political scientist Carolina Hernandez.
For Chavez, Colombia is the big prize and he will do everything possible to bring it into his sphere of influence.
However, their sphere of influence is far greater on purpose.
He had spoken to his employees, and a few industry groups, before, but had never ventured outside of this narrow sphere of influence.
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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.
Moreover, many analysts believe Putin views Ukraine -- where Russia has a large naval base -- as belonging to Moscow's sphere of influence.
And I wonder how many countries we would have to let be swallowed up into the sphere of influence for Putin to be satisfied.
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.
His close relations with the United States are particularly galling to Russia, which sees its former subject state as part of its 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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We will not recognize any nation having a sphere of influence.
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.
The Polish and Czech governments are understandably horrified at this transparent bid to accede to the Kremlin's efforts to reestablish a sphere of influence in Europe.
Nepal wants the railway extended to Kathmandu, which India fears would give China more clout in a country India sees as part of its sphere of influence.
By keeping troops in Georgia, Russia is also sending an unambiguous message to the West: that the former Soviet republic remains part of Russia's sphere of influence.
The alliance is racked by internal divisions, and each faction seems to be backed by a neighbouring power intent on creating its own sphere of influence in Afghanistan.
One thing is to accept Venezuelan largess but another thing is to move his country into a Chavista sphere of influence by showing disdain and undermining state institutions.
Russia sees Ukraine as part of its sphere of influence.
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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".
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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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 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.
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.
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