One of these, he said, was "the 19th Century notion of the sphere of influence".
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 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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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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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.
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.
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.
In recent years, Iran has expanded its sphere of influence to strategic points around the region.
However, I strive to align the pleasure of producing and bringing profits with benefiting others in my sphere of influence.
For Chavez, Colombia is the big prize and he will do everything possible to bring it into his 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.
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.
They fear that switching elections to the party sphere would both import the virus of party politics into backbench business, and strengthen the power of the party machines to influence the make-up of the committee.
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