| Instead they were looking to redivide Europe into rival spheres of influence. |
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| It was characterised by the arms race between the two superpowers who were eager to preserve their spheres of influence. |
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| Some may develop strategies to deny foes the ability to project power into their spheres of influence. |
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| The Cold War was a result of this division of power and of the important policy of spheres of influence. |
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| Since the 1880s, the great powers had all been engaged in expansionist drives to extend their spheres of influence to the rest of the world. |
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| Both nations officially encouraged decolonization, yet both also sought to take newly independent countries into their spheres of influence. |
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| Today it remains enslaved to this Cold War legacy, with both its structure and vision predicated on a world divided into states and spheres of influence. |
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| They have a certain scope of action that is extendable, but restricted by other spheres of influence. |
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| The creation of these late orders of chivalry proliferated in European nations in the 19th century and was emulated by emergent aspirant nations in their spheres of influence. |
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| The west dismissed this, saying the concept of spheres of influence belonged to a bygone age. |
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| In the past, there were spheres of influence that would ensure most people were effectively socialised. |
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| That person must be able to grasp the defining features of this universe immediately: its history, values and spheres of influence. |
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| We must forget geopolitical considerations, the spheres of influence and strategic interests. |
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| In my own view modern Russia has to accept that there are now no spheres of influence. |
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| As mentioned previously, non-academic partners were frequently expected to 'mobilize' the research results within their spheres of influence. |
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| We are committed to promoting and developing these principles in our business areas and our spheres of influence. |
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| The sources of conflict concern spheres of influence, profits and previous debts. |
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| Or can his actions be explained as essentially defensive and reactive in response to growing American meddling in areas of traditional Russian spheres of influence? |
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| Second, preserving multiple spheres of influence and expertise stimulates research on and healthy competition over statistical methodologies and approaches. |
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| As the hubs of international networks, major companies form spheres of influence and power over numbers of affiliated and collaborating business units. |
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| Agreements on spheres of influence served this purpose. |
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| Europe's history should serve as constant warning against the logic of spheres of influence, or anything resembling the sacrifice of the interests of smaller nations in the name of big power realpolitik. |
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| The goals of this intervention align with the four spheres of influence. |
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| That is a place name that has come to be a codeword for the cynical sacrifice of small nations' freedom to great powers' spheres of influence. |
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| The model of leadership capacity may help administrators plan experiences that support teachers as they expand their spheres of influence. |
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| Putin was also trying to disunite Europe and to expand his spheres of influence. |
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| They have created powerful spheres of influence. |
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| The US does not recognise spheres of influence. |
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| His thinking on spheres of influence seems atavistic. |
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| In light of this situation, sanofi-aventis has for several years been strengthening its approach to fighting corruption in all countries where the Group operates and across all its spheres of influence. |
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| This theoretical, sociological choice, but above all a political choice: the class difference in both assemblies corresponds as well to reciprocal spheres of influence. |
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| The waning unipolarity has given way to the multiple power centers with growing spheres of influence. |
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| The Committee was also seen to be a two-way link between the sector and the project that could disseminate information to sector groups in their spheres of influence. |
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| Within this framework, DPAs should endeavour to promote this initiative in their respective spheres of influence, in particular within the regional organisations or linguistic zones to which they belong. |
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| As senior and well-respected individuals within their spheres of influence, they should be willing to open doors and support the ongoing resource mobilization activities of the Secretariat. |
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| In part because the old spheres of influence became fuzzy as the Cold War disappeared, domestic violence in parts of Africa and Asia has involved us all. |
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| Sometimes portions of a single country can fall into two distinct spheres of influence. |
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| Due to their size and spheres of influence, SMEs have limited capacity to invest in corporate social responsibility and implement modern corporate governance principles. |
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| The system of spheres of influence by which powerful nations intervene in the affairs of others continues to the present. |
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| The rest of Europe was also divided into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. |
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| The treaty also contained secret protocols dividing Poland and the Baltic states into German and Soviet spheres of influence. |
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| Each tried to swallow the region and to merge it with their spheres of influence. |
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| The Berlin Conference sought to end the European powers' Scramble for Africa, by agreeing on political division and spheres of influence. |
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| After World War II, Europe was informally split into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. |
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| Given the background of the presence of various western spheres of influence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the opposition considers even the possibility of a parceling up of the country. |
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| Their spheres of influence overlapped in the Central African Federation. |
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| This system reorganized Europe into spheres of influence, which, in some cases, suppressed the aspirations of the various nationalities, including the Germans and Italians. |
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| The concept of the consignment of exclusive spheres of influence to certain nation states was extended to the Americas in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI with Inter caetera. |
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| They can refer those within their spheres of influence, as well as their own clients, as long as they are not representing them in the same real estate transactions. |
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| The ensuing Cold War also created instabilities among Portuguese overseas populations, as the United States and Soviet Union vied to increase their spheres of influence. |
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| Historical examples include the spheres of influence recognized under the Concert of Europe, or the recognition of spheres during the Cold War following the Yalta Conference. |
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| The two cultures rarely clashed, mainly in the Sicilian Wars, and eventually settled into two spheres of influence, the Phoenician in the west and the Greek to the east. |
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| In Spheres of Influence, 2001, another large work in the same format, Kozloff depicts heavily populated areas around the Mediterranean during Greco-Roman times. |
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