But what's most important for all of this, in my mind, is to accurately assess your sphere of influence and work within that sphere of influence.
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I think your sphere of influence is the coolest thing.
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The Kremlin viewed Yugoslavia as within its sphere of influence.
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But people have control over their own particular sphere of influence.
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But retaining an Indian "sphere of influence" remains a tricky task.
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This is about greed, power and expanding Putin's sphere of influence.
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I have a sphere of influence right now, where I'm talking to you as a media outlet, where we could potentially have a large sphere of influence, so I'm really trying to say all of the points.
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Each kept well away from the other's staff and sphere of influence.
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Obviously there's a lot of benefits in terms of your sphere of influence.
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Now this man is expanding his sphere of influence into the virtual realm.
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Christie's world is not the only sphere of influence in the Trump transition.
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Russia has long tried to claim Eastern Europe as its sphere of influence.
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By September, she had effectively forced him out of his own sphere of influence.
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It wishes to have its sphere of influence, particularly in the South China Sea.
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Certainly, plenty of wealthy people from the Trump sphere of influence were in attendance.
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If Pence is out of the sphere of influence, just who is Trump listening to?
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India's biggest rival, China, continues to make strategic inroads into India's traditional sphere of influence.
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In other cases, Russia adds an essential layer of protection around its sphere of influence.
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They need to continually reach outside their current sphere of influence to build new connections.
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But whether Iran can maintain such a large sphere of influence is uncertain, Khashan said.
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In Saudi eyes, that was tantamount to encouraging Iran to expand its sphere of influence.
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Delhi has long viewed the India Ocean as part of its immediate sphere of influence.
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Yet the quest to restore Russia's traditional sphere of influence remains the key geopolitical imperative.
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It is seeking to expand its sphere of influence, destabilize countries and weaken the alliance.
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Hungary had fallen into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence following the Second World War.
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The appointment would put Ms. Crowley in the sphere of influence led by Lt. Gen.
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"You have to pay more attention to who's in your sphere of influence," she said.
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It resents French involvement in a country that it sees as in its sphere of influence.
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Beyond that, Turkey wants this part of Syria to become part of its sphere of influence.
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Within their sphere of influence, the Russians invest significant efforts to prevent ties with the West.
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In Russia's immediate neighborhood, this means an unquestioned sphere of influence, similar to America's Monroe Doctrine.
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Australia is also watching closely because the South Pacific has traditionally been its sphere of influence.
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Russia is a regional power struggling to retain a fragment of its former sphere of influence.
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This allows China to dominate markets, expand their sphere of influence, and crowd out American companies.
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He wants Russia unconstrained by Western values and institutions, free to pursue a sphere of influence.
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I do see that it is catching on and that [I've developed that] sphere of influence.
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Smaller towns in Teozacoalco's sphere of influence are shown connected by a network of rivers and roads.
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China is ascendant in the Pacific and assertive throughout what it sees as its sphere of influence.
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Here is why: Iranian people have been understandably worried about the expansion of mullahs' sphere of influence.
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"No country or international body can claim they have us within their sphere of influence," he said.
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From Russia's point of view, by delivering his speech in Poland, Mr Trump delineated America's sphere of influence.
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France and Italy cannot agree on Libya because both see it as part of their sphere of influence.
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They help keep post-Soviet states locked into Russian military equipment — and, by extension, Russia's sphere of influence.
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The Maldives, a chain of islands southwest of India, has traditionally fallen within New Delhi's sphere of influence.
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Outside of Kelly's sphere of influence, the president is following his own staffing strategies for the reelection campaign.
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It would also undermine a sphere of influence that Turkey has carved out in recent years in Syria.
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Street style—blogs at first and then social media—have really broadened the sphere of influence past fashion magazines.
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Don't obsess over getting the "best" rate of return possible because that is outside of your sphere of influence.
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I was kind of in that Northern New Jersey sphere of influence, not too far outside New York City.
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But for India it's a direct challenge to what New Delhi sees as its own historic sphere of influence.
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The newest members — mostly former eastern bloc countries — sought stability, security and freedom from the Russian sphere of influence.
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Ukraine is always going to be in Russia's sphere of influence, so its efforts there will always trump ours.
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Russia viewed these revolutions as being orchestrated by the West and as an affront to its sphere of influence.
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But he considered Iraq within Russia's sphere of influence and adamantly opposed the war America began there in 2003.
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Russia has attempted to counter NATO by increasing its sphere of influence in eastern Europe over the past decade.
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The Kremlin is especially concerned about the Balkans, a region it still considers within its historical sphere of influence.
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Each sees Libya as part of its sphere of influence, and each has national oil champions whose interests it promotes.
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These days it is America that complains of Russia meddling in its sphere of influence, not the other way round.
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At his most recent photo exhibition in Paris, Sphère d'influence (Sphere of Influence), he showed his 50 greatest courtside shots.
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The U.S. is also flexing its muscles, though, while India is desperate to keep Nepal in its sphere of influence.
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China denies it is seeking a sphere of influence in Pacific, insisting it gives aid to help with economic development.
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This sphere of influence can include transactions between non-Americans outside the U.S. where the U.S. dollar currency is involved.
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It also comes as China moves to piece together a sphere of influence through regional trade agreements and infrastructure projects.
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Lastly, and perhaps crucially, Russia hopes to project power in a region the American government considers its sphere of influence.
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Bannon is not the only member of Trump's political team who has carved out a sphere of influence on foreign policy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has an interest in ~continuity and stability~ in Russia's sphere of influence and Armenia is no exception.
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The current government wants closer EU integration and warns of catastrophe if the country falls back into Russia's sphere of influence.
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However, the Assad regime and Iran are becoming increasingly assertive and have started to move away from Russia's sphere of influence.
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China denies it is seeking a sphere of influence in the Pacific, saying its aid is to help with economic development.
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Countries including Burundi, Mauritania and Togo, that used to fall firmly within France's sphere of influence have opened embassies in Britain.
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The next step seems obvious: expand NATO even more into Russia's old sphere of influence, by bringing in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Trump offers Putin opportunities to expand Russia's sphere of influence, weaken NATO, shed U.S. and European sanctions, and upset global trade.
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From there, the Pathet Lao, backed by the Vietnamese Communists, basically sought to move Laos into a Communist sphere of influence.
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ISIS's ability to spread its tentacles within its Central Asian sphere of influence is partly dependent on its relationship with affiliates.
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Peckham: New mobile game studios that are launching all seem to fall under the sphere of influence of these bigger companies.
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Vanuatu, an impoverished nation, is considered to be within Australia's sphere of influence, with Canberra providing it with aid and investment.
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Yet most of us now have daily contact with the world of venture capital, because its sphere of influence has exploded.
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Putin apparently no longer fears any international sanctions on his moves to become the major player in Russia's sphere of influence.
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While most of the projects are concentrated in Asia, China has also extended the initiative beyond its natural sphere of influence.
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And in fact, Putin witnessed US "democracy building" in Russia's sphere of influence during the anti-Russian revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine.
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At a time when Russia is doing its utmost to drag Ukraine towards its sphere of influence, that is no bad thing.
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China denies it is seeking a sphere of influence in the Pacific, saying its aid is intended to help with economic development.
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The Russians fear the combined impact of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union on their sphere of influence.
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As a practical matter, Russia's ambitions are clearly directed towards regaining a sphere of influence in central Europe and the Middle East.
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For the time being, however, a nuclear-armed Mr Putin is bent on imposing himself in the old Soviet sphere of influence.
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The Crimean cheburek , a savory turnover filled with minced meat and onions, is a popular street food throughout Moscow's sphere of influence.
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In fact, the Kremlin's real motive is to exercise a coercive sphere of influence over neighbors, a prescription for their permanent insecurity.
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The Kremlin thought the new Ukrainian government would quickly accept that it was in Russia's sphere of influence, but instead it resisted.
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South Korea has a deep alliance with the US, whose sphere of influence would then also run right up to China's borders.
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But the Russian sphere of influence was tenuous: hundreds of thousands of square miles held by only 1,000 or so scattered colonists.
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A sphere-of-influence world would not be peaceful or stable; the United States will not be immune to its violent disruptions.
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As such, Moscow wants to protect its assets from regime change as well as preventing the U.S. from increasing its sphere of influence.
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Should he opt for free agency, the greatest feeding frenzy since LeBron's The Decision will only increase his profile and sphere of influence.
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It sees the war there as a way of forcing America to recognise a Russian sphere of influence in the former Soviet Union.
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"What the database is going to do, hopefully, is shrink their sphere of influence to companies that aren't involved like Telegram," says Parker.
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NATO member Turkey sees Mosul as firmly within its sphere of influence, but Iraq views Turkish military moves on its territory with apprehension.
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Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system by a long shot — and, astrologically speaking, its sphere of influence matches its size.
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Russian spy agencies have published embarrassing information to try to influence political events in countries they consider part of their sphere of influence.
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Their sphere of influence expanded as they seized territory from Islamic State with U.S. help, though Washington says it opposes their autonomy plans.
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Armenia—which hosts two Russian bases—is being drawn farther into Russia's sphere of influence, hindering chances of reconciliation between the neighboring countries.
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Will Russia insist on protecting its prior bid and sponsorship arrangements in exchange for its vote and those within its sphere of influence?
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Vladimir Putin wishes to fracture these blocs so that Russia can commandeer smaller nations and return them to the Russian sphere of influence.
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It is about increasing the sphere of influence of humans across the planet," Diamandis said, while noting "the industry has great disruptive power.
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He has spoken favourably about Russian President Vladimir Putin, and may take a more accommodative stance towards attempts to extend Russia's sphere of influence.
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Some Europeans are frustrated that the region may drift into Turkey's sphere of influence as it projects power culturally as well through business deals.
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"We have no private interests in island countries, and do not seek a so-called 'sphere of influence'," the ministry paraphrased Xi as saying.
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Mr Putin is hoping for a deal with Mr Trump, similar to the 1945 Yalta agreement, to carve out a Russian sphere of influence.
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Although fresh ECB measures could prop up the economy, the ECB's problem is that the bloc's troubles are largely outside its sphere of influence.
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I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
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A weakened EU, Mr Putin calculates, should make it easier to keep the likes of Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus within Russia's sphere of influence.
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But China has in recent years been more active in projects in a country India has long seen as in its sphere of influence.
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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
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China could then use DCEP to manage funding for its Belt and Road program of overseas infrastructure investments, extending its monetary sphere of influence.
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No, he apparently thought, all of this was one nefarious plot hatched in Washington to encircle Russia deep in its historical sphere of influence.
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Meanwhile, Beijing has backed many infrastructure development projects in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, countries that India considers as part of its sphere of influence.
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On a call with reporters, Castro also warned that the wall could drive top trading partner Mexico away from the American sphere of influence.
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First, find a way to bring politics more into your sphere of influence so it no longer qualifies as an external locus of control.
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"It wasn't a comfortable and easy [decision] to walk away, because once you walk away, you don't have that sphere of influence anymore," Loedolff adds.
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The corollary is that they get to hold and maintain their own sphere of influence in Eurasia, whatever the Ukrainians, or the Georgians, may feel.
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Moscow started taking things into its own hands in Russia's "near abroad" — the former Soviet republics that it sees as its rightful sphere of influence.
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Ankara backs rebel forces that control swathes of territory north of Idlib under its sphere of influence, and some that have a presence in Idlib.
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Fears of falling back into Moscow's "sphere of influence" fueled the desire to join the EU and NATO after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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In March a British frigate sailed through part of the South China Sea where the Chinese authorities are trying to establish a sphere of influence.
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Mohman, the former ambassador, said if the United States kept putting pressure on Pakistan, then Islamabad would drift farther from the American sphere of influence.
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Having been trapped in the Soviet sphere of influence after World War Two, Poles, Lithuanians, Czechs, and Hungarians went for the best insurance policy around.
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Their countries would each get a sphere of influence, which they outlined in blue and red pencil on a now notorious map of the Levant.
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Mr. Trump's main appeal within the Kremlin is not that he admires Mr. Putin, but that he has little interest in Russia's sphere of influence.
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In all, 13 countries – virtually all previously in the Soviet sphere of influence – joined the transatlantic NATO alliance following the end of the Cold War.
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"The gravitational sphere of influence of a black hole is tiny in comparison to an entire galaxy," said John Ruan, an astrophysicist at McGill University.
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Putin has long hated NATO, which he sees as a US-dominated military alliance that is deliberately moving ever deeper into Russia's sphere of influence.
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We still do this today—Ukraine attempted to exit Russia's sphere of influence in the hope of gaining access to greater levels of Western investment.
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In China — and in every dark corner of its global sphere of influence — nothing occurs unless directed or approved by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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They also said Manila had "treacherously taken advantage" of the cease-fire to encroach on territory the rebels considered part of their sphere of influence.
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But Mr. Putin does seek to recreate a Russian sphere of influence while picking apart the liberal international order that prevailed in the Cold War.
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"The African continent is the independent homeland for the 1.4 billion people of Africa, not a sphere of influence for any major country," he said.
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Clooney has yet to speak on any action he plans on doing, or how he intends on changing this culture within his own sphere of influence.
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Their sphere of influence expanded as they seized territory from Islamic State with U.S. help, though Washington opposes their autonomy plans as does the Syrian government.
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Moscow blames the West for stirring anti-Russian feeling across the east, particularly in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, which it considers its historic sphere of influence.
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What he wants is a West too disunited and inward-looking to be able meaningfully to resist Russian adventurism in its self-claimed sphere of influence.
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Their sphere of influence expanded as they seized territory from Islamic State with U.S. help, though Washington opposes their autonomy plans as does the Syrian government.
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While this gives Amazon a big business right away, it also offers Amazon yet another opportunity to lock consumers into the Jeff Bezos Sphere of Influence.
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Like Sue the dinosaur, who is moving to a smaller hall, Mr Madigan may just have to get used to a slightly smaller sphere of influence.
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Or else, we can throw our recent history into reverse and revert to Russia's sphere of influence, as some of the parties and candidates strongly advocate.
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Moscow has accused the West, notably Washington, of stirring anti-Russian feelings among former Soviet states which it deems part of its own sphere of influence.
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As a result, they are also more willing to connect you to other notable people and give you access to their "sphere of influence," says Kim.
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In consolidating power in Hungary, Mr. Orban has recognized the huge power of media and now seems intent on trying to expand his sphere of influence.
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The big picture: Putin views Ukraine as firmly within Russia's sphere of influence, and he saw Kiev's sudden shift toward the West as an existential threat.
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President Xi Jinping said last month China has offered to help developing nations and is not seeking a sphere of influence in Pacific Ocean island states.
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It implied that Russia makes no claim on members of NATO and the EU, but considers anything to the east its own sphere of influence, especially Ukraine.
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Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, LeBron James — some of the most famous people in the world, across every sphere of influence, making news with every tweet.
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An agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2003, before Ukraine tried to break away from Russia's sphere of influence, established joint control of the Sea of Azov.
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Their sphere of influence expanded as they seized territory from Islamic State militants with U.S. help, though Washington opposes their political ambitions as does the Syrian government.
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As it brings more of these activities into its sphere of influence, Facebook keeps users within its walls and, while there, can continue to serve them ads.
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Unprecedented The first daughter's sphere of influence is unprecedented in American presidential history -- no immediate member of a first family had ever served in a formal capacity.
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This is part of a larger effort by Russian media and military to discredit Lithuanian history and justify a return to a Soviet-style sphere of influence.
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India has long considered Sri Lanka, just off its southern coast, as within its sphere of influence and sought to push back against China's expanding maritime presence.
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In part because Washington has never regarded the High North as a major strategic priority, the area has been seen as falling within Russia's sphere of influence.
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U.S. allies fear that China's expansion, seen as a means of growing its sphere of influence, poses a threat to their safety should a military conflict arise.
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And as China is expanding its sphere of influence to every corner of the world, the U.S. is actively retreating by pulling out of international trade pacts.
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But the Obama administration viewed it as code for allowing China to establish a sphere of influence in Asia, with the United States withdrawing to minimize conflict.
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China, at the same time, has aggressively courted closer relationships with Nepal and other countries traditionally in India's sphere of influence, including Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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Moscow sees Yerevan as an important ally in Eurasian integration projects, but it also sells weapons to Azerbaijan, trying to involve Baku in its sphere of influence.
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Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, China's naval reach has grown considerably, expanding far beyond its immediate coastline into areas not previously considered within its sphere of influence.
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But Europe's leaders signaled their desire to consolidate their sphere of influence as Russia and China move to fill the vacuum left by a retrenching United States.
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Under President Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa's first independent leaders, the nation is seen as drifting away from the West and into the Soviet sphere of influence.
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In May, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the visiting prime minister of Vanuatu, Charlot Salwai, that China was not seeking a sphere of influence in the Pacific.
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If liberal ideas do not underpin the world, geopolitics risks becoming the balance-of-power, sphere-of-influence struggle that European statesmen grappled with in the 19th century.
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He wants NATO to stop expanding and become weaker; he wants the US and NATO and the US to relinquish their protective umbrella over Russia's sphere of influence.
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Political ructions also threaten to pull rival Hong Kong further into China's sphere of influence, which one banker in discussions with tech firms said gives Singapore an advantage.
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Howard Schultz: Influencers need to step up: "We must use our sphere of influence to demonstrate there is a better way," the Starbucks CEO said about brand engagement.
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The bombing, moreover, came less than a week after Tillerson signaled to Assad and Putin that the United States was effectively ceding Syria to Russia's sphere of influence.
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Turkey has carved a sphere of influence in an opposition-held enclave in northwestern Syria around Idlib province with the help of mainstream Arab rebels who it backs.
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China, a rising superpower with five times India's GDP, is quietly encroaching on India's traditional sphere of influence, tying a "string of pearls" of alliances around the subcontinent.
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China is a status-quo power, eager to enlarge its sphere of influence in Asia and establish trade with Africa, but no desire to radically alter global politics.
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China views all of East Asia as its sphere of influence and wants a free hand to pursue its territorial ambitions in the South and East China Seas.
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Or did it fear that Communists, who had gained administrative and advisory roles in Guatemala's new government, were building up too much power in America's sphere of influence?
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India has long been the dominant power in South Asia but as Beijing invests millions in the region, New Delhi is looking to defend its sphere of influence.
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As the economic and political crisis deepens in Venezuela – Cuba's post-Soviet patron – Russia is eager to regain its once diminished sphere of influence over our island neighbor.
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Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop also tried to quell fears of an increased Chinese military presence in a region which has traditionally been under Canberra's sphere of influence.
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Malpass in the past blasted Kim's embrace of China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative, a massive transportation infrastructure building spree designed to expand Beijing's economic sphere of influence.
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First, there is a suggestion that Russia and the West may want to negotiate a grand bargain in which Ukraine would be relegated to Russia's sphere of influence.
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New Delhi has been alarmed by the growing presence of Chinese submarines in its traditional sphere of influence, and as Beijing strikes seaport deals with countries encircling India.
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That gas is located within the black holes&apos "sphere of influence" — the innermost region of a galaxy where the black hole is the dominant force of gravity.
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If you live anywhere outside of its sphere of influence, or rely more on your own car than public transit, Google Maps is going to serve you better.
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Russia often depicts NATO as an aggressor whose members are moving troops and military hardware further into former Soviet territory, which it regards as its sphere of influence.
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Putin's top priority at the summit will likely be securing Russia's sphere of influence inside the boundaries of the former Soviet Union — while simultaneously undermining NATO, analysts said.
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Although the growth trajectory is similar to the North American experience, differences in underlying drivers have the potential to elevate Asia Pacific's sphere of influence in the digital economy.
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China will offer America a superficially easy life in which China is granted a sphere of influence in the western Pacific Ocean, and America settles into inward-looking decline.
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Russian influence Russia has hardly been reluctant to use any weapon in its arsenal to work its will in what it sees as its increasingly broadening sphere of influence.
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I&aposd like to get them out of Russia&aposs orbit, pull them away from Iran and back in -- back into our sphere of influence, where they should be.
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Much of the present competition between the United States and Russia is taking place in regions that were once part of the Soviet Union or its sphere of influence.
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Based on my conversations with many Russian foreign policy experts, Putin is striving to carve out a new 19th century style sphere of influence, sanctified by new Yalta Accords.
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Could the two men surprise us with a deal that hands the Donbas back to Ukraine in exchange for a Russian sphere of influence elsewhere, such as in Syria?
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That could leave Beijing with greater room to fill the leadership void as the world's second-largest economy looks to extend its sphere of influence in Asia and beyond.
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Chief among Moscow's concerns are the potential of a safe haven for the Islamic State in Afghanistan, in close proximity to Russia's traditional sphere of influence in Central Asia.
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As the United States has encroached on Russia's "near abroad"—the surrounding countries that comprise Russia's traditional sphere of influence—it has activated deep-seated Russian anxieties about invasion.
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But Nehlen also received the backing of big names in the conservative sphere of influence, such as author and commentator Ann Coulter and former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
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He is intensely focused on destabilizing the U.S. internally, driving a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies, and enhancing control over Russia's regional sphere of influence.
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Russia has repeatedly blamed the West for stirring anti-Russian sentiment and encroaching on countries like Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, which it considers part of its sphere of influence.
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Riyadh and some other members of the GCC accuse Tehran of using sectarianism to interfere in Arab countries and build its own sphere of influence in the Middle East.
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Military reach Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, China's maritime reach has grown considerably, expanding far beyond its immediate coastline into areas not previously considered within its sphere of influence.
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In a memo Mr. Pottinger had written just weeks before, he warned against that language, which is viewed as code for a Chinese sphere of influence in its region.
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It was our goal to take action in this little sphere of influence to make clear that we deeply valued diversity and would make decisions based on those values.
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The U.S. has cut tactical deals with Turkey in Syria, but these cannot satiate Erdogan's drive for expanding Turkey's sphere of influence beyond the historic borders of the Ottoman Empire.
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"Singapore prides itself on its rule of law and its place in the international community and this complicates China's interests and what happens in its sphere of influence," she said.
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The Kremlin denies any such intention and says NATO is the aggressor by moving its borders ever closer onto former Soviet territory which it regards as its sphere of influence.
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But many suspect that the Russian strategy may be to get rid of him first, then eliminate Ms Sandu and take Moldova firmly back into the Russian sphere of influence.
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Similarly, the Soviet Union could not abide political reforms within its sphere of influence: A more open socialism in Hungary was crushed in 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest.
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Whether it has been Russia's actions in Georgia, Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Syria or Armenia, Putin's aggression and his growing sphere of influence needs to be stopped before it's too late.
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The Koch Industries' various arms focus on more than just crude-oil gathering and refining, which is what allowed Fred Koch to build his family's fortune and sphere of influence.
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Facebook has been increasingly criticized over its content filtering process and sphere of influence since the 2016 presidential election, when Russian agents used the platform to interfere in the election.
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To this day, the sphere of influence from downtown generally stops at Crawford Street, which for me was a jarring reminder of how ghosts from the past don't easily dissipate.
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Under Putin's Machiavellian direction, Russia has managed to exploit U.S. ambivalence in Syria and carve out what is likely to be a revitalized Russian sphere of influence in the Levant.
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But his effective assertion that the US viewed the rest of the Americas as its sphere of influence became a cornerstone of the nation's foreign policy for over a century.
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Putin has in the past resisted popular revolts in ex-Soviet states, particular in Georgia and Ukraine, viewing them as a ploy by Washington to encroach on Moscow's sphere of influence.
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The other international issue dividing Washington and Moscow is Ukraine, which Russia sees as part of its sphere of influence even though the country has now moved decisively toward the West.
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In the 1800s, it separated the British Empire and Imperial Russia; in the 1980s it stood between the Soviet Union to the north and America's sphere of influence in the south.
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His dream is to see Western sanctions lifted and for Mr Trump to agree to a Yalta-style deal that would recognise a Russian sphere of influence in its "near abroad".
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The Soviet Union, for its part, generally lined up behind forces of national liberation (except in its sphere of influence), if only because they had the potential to undermine its rival.
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Throughout the history of authoritarianism, and particularly in the Russian sphere of influence, music -- popular and classical -- has always snuck below the censor's radar to be a rallying cry for dissent.
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Bolton is the most senior U.S. official in years to travel to Belarus and his trip may irk Moscow, which traditionally sees the former Soviet republic as its sphere of influence.
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The phraseology seemed to signal United States capitulation to China's sphere-of-influence geopolitical stance, marking the most recent in a series of confusing tonal and substantive shifts on Washington's part.
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Fewer than one in 10 saw China as "a benign and benevolent power," with nearly a half saying Beijing possessed "an intent to turn Southeast Asia into its sphere of influence".
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The Soviet Union maintained a substantial military presence there during the Cold War, propping up an array of anti-Western regimes to counterbalance American partners and extend its geopolitical sphere of influence.
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Apple's iCloud, along with Google Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive, has made a big move into Dropbox's sphere of influence, and the previous cloud computing front runner is beginning to feel the competition.
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The civil war in Syria was largely seen as a battle for influence in the Middle East, with Russia keen to not see another regional ally come under America's sphere of influence.
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Barons, cowboys, outlaws and gunslingers all vying for their voice by rushing for content gold in this unbridled sphere of influence — but they are stumbling in the thicket of the emigrant trails.
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The de-escalation zones are also believed, by US and opposition sources, to free up time and resources for the regime to advance into the American sphere of influence in ISIS areas.
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Western leaders, however, fear that elections would be won by pro-Russian parties and return the country, which has an association agreement with the European Union, to the Russian sphere of influence.
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Faced with the potential loss of both regions to the Russian sphere of influence, Shevardnadze developed what Toal calls "Georgia's marketing pitch to the international community"—in particular to the United States.
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Analysts say such a move will only fuel the rising tensions between NATO and Russia, which is spooked by the alliance's growing footprint in its former sphere of influence in eastern Europe.
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As for Putin, he comes into the talks with nothing to lose, but likely with the goal of retaining some leverage over Ukraine, which he still regards as a sphere of influence.
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But in a region where Chinese and Russian influence is growing rapidly, and which has long been considered part of the the U.S. sphere of influence, a new political figure is sparking attention.
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The six Arab members of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), especially Saudi Arabia, accuse Iran of using sectarianism to interfere in Arab countries and build its own sphere of influence in the Middle East.
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"We suspect that the use of malware by governments to spy on political dissidents, especially exiles who live outside of their government's direct sphere of influence, is increasingly common," the research team concluded.
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Mr. Castro's alignment with the Soviet Union meant that the Cold War between the world's superpowers, and the ideological battle between democracy and communism, had erupted in the United States' sphere of influence.
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"Preserving these sanctions is critical given Iran's disturbing pattern of aggression and its persistent efforts to expand its sphere of influence across the Middle East," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week.
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Additionally, the geopolitical situation has changed; U.S.-Russian relations are at a low point and Putin is emboldened domestically while seeking to expand Russia's sphere of influence within the region and beyond. Gen.
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For centuries, the Himalayas served as a buffer between India and China, but now China's reach stretches into South Asian countries like Nepal that have historically been part of India's sphere of influence.
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In recent years, Chinese state media and private internet companies have invested heavily overseas, prompting concern from lawmakers and rights groups that Beijing could remotely curtail criticism and expand its sphere of influence.
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In recent years, Chinese state media and private internet companies have invested heavily overseas, prompting concern from lawmakers and rights groups that Beijing could remotely curtail criticism and expand its sphere of influence.
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"Here's the thing, Alex Jones isn't going away," Kelly said in her introduction to the report, noting that his sphere of influence has grown since attracting the support of President Trump in 2015.
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Syria wants Turkey, which has backed Sunni rebels and carved a sphere of influence in the northwest of the country, to remove its troops from Syrian territory and end its support for rebels.
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While in the U.S. sphere of influence, the southern half of this divided country has lived through two bloody counterinsurgencies, in 1948 and 1980, while enduring decades of U.S. backing for authoritarian governments.
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The continued expansion of NATO into the former Russian sphere of influence and U.S. supporting of anti-Russian revolts in the former Soviet republics were perceived as threats to Russian sovereignty and security.
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The New York Times is out with a story today questioning Donald Trump's actual sphere of influence in the Big Apple, concluding that whatever clout he once enjoyed some 30 years ago has evaporated.
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What came out of Yalta, however, was a divided Europe, with the Soviet Union imposing repressive Communist regimes throughout its sphere of influence -- Eastern Europe and the Soviet Republics -- for nearly half a century.
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And, the U.S. government controls which banks can interact with the U.S. dollar, so using that sphere of influence, they're able to really control the direction of global economics and the global political situation.
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But it is hard to believe that it does not welcome the idea of having friends in the United States' historical sphere of influence to match America's allies in East and South-East Asia.
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India is trying to preserve its own sphere of influence in South Asia through projects such as building roads and bridges in Bangladesh, hydroelectric plants in Nepal and ports and railways in Sri Lanka.
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Seen properly, the invasion of Crimea wasn't evidence of Putin's swashbuckling vigor—it was a desperate land grab to prevent yet another country formerly in Russia's sphere of influence from gravitating toward the West.
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The bottom line: As always, Putin's goal will be to retain power, in part by keeping the United States weakened, divided and out of Russia's sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, so often portrayed as America's most benevolent foreign policy actions, kept Turkey within the American sphere of influence, protection, and—eventually, to some degree—control and exploitation.
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"All the trend lines right now point away from a tough approach to Russian aggression and point toward more accommodation of the Russian notion that they have a privileged sphere of influence," he said.
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It thought this would be a quick military adventure, a short demonstration of the trouble it could cause, followed by a political capitulation as Ukraine accepted it was part of Russia's sphere of influence.
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Indian and Chinese diplomats are watching the turmoil closely, having jostled over Sri Lanka in recent years as Beijing has tried to assert its influence in the region, New Delhi's traditional sphere of influence.
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Vladimir Putin — who had already invaded and occupied part of the Republic of Georgia — made it clear that Moscow was determined to keep Ukraine out of NATO and firmly within Russia's sphere of influence.
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The danger for the United States is that the payments mechanism gives the European Union valuable experience operating outside Washington's financial sphere of influence and becomes a permanent part of the international payments system.
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While moderating a live televised debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, Mr. Frankel posed a question to the incumbent President Ford regarding United States-Soviet relations and the sphere of influence in Europe.
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Already bridling at NATO's expansion eastwards into its old Soviet sphere of influence, the Kremlin sees the U.S.-led alliance's new deterrents in the Baltics and eastern Europe as a threat to its security.
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The brutal conflict that took close to a million lives planted the seeds of Iran's nearly 40-year project to build a Shiite sphere of influence across the Middle East from Tehran to Beirut.
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The deployment comes amid increasing concerns in those areas (all of which were under Soviet control during the Cold War) that Russia could be prepared to try to increase or regain its sphere of influence.
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Asian governments want to know whether Mr Trump, a man who seems more concerned with interests than values, might do a deal with China, trading help with North Korea for a Chinese sphere of influence.
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In recent years, Russia has increased its involvement within its sphere of influence (primarily other countries in the former Soviet Union) including the use of open military force, intelligence operations, psychological warfare, and economic warfare.
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With such an immense undertaking, critics worry that the BRI will strengthen China's global sphere of influence to a severe degree that would cause partnering countries to become economically beholden on the East Asian country.
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As part of this quest, they have initiated their "Belt and Road" policy — an outright attempt to draw nations across Asia, the Middle East and Oceania into their sphere of influence through massive infrastructure investment.
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While the technical cause of that schism lay in disagreements over theology, then, as now, politics played a role, as Eastern bishops sought to distance themselves from the sphere of influence of their Western counterpart.
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As China moves more aggressively to build a sphere of influence in Southeast Asia, Myanmar is a prime asset, a border state with a long coastline that offers a strategic outlet to the Indian Ocean.
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The program encouraged the Guard's citizen-soldiers, who hold civilian jobs while performing part-time military service, to refer potential recruits they met at work, church, county fairs — anywhere their "sphere of influence" might extend.
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The Kremlin seeks to weaken what it considers alliances arrayed against it, like the European Union and NATO, especially as it sees them spreading through its natural sphere of influence in the former Soviet bloc.
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The kingdom is a longtime ally of the United States, but Moscow has sought to broaden its sphere of influence in the Middle East and has become an increasingly powerful political force in the region.
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The end of the Soviet Union left outside the Soviet sphere of influence millions and millions of Russian-speakers who think of themselves as Russian, who identified as Russian, in Ukraine, in Belarus, in the Baltics.
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As the US-backed YPG fought ISIS, Kurdish armed groups expanded their sphere of influence in northern Syria, and Turkey found most of its southern border controlled by what it considers to be an existential threat.
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Judge tends to see anyone with power — however petty and inconsequential the power might be — as something of a buffoon, inclined to egomania, insensitivity, and a lazy incuriosity about the world outside their sphere of influence.
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While the two countries routinely hail their friendship and criticize the reach of Western power — witness the joint statement they released last month — China has exhibited little compunction over encroaching upon Russia's traditional sphere of influence.
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He was speaking in Delhi, India's capital, a fact that underscored a point China is making increasingly clear by other, less diplomatic means: the thing it really disapproves of is India maintaining a sphere of influence.
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As well as the corridor through Pakistan, India is worried more broadly about China's economic and diplomatic expansion through Asia, and in particular across countries and waterways that it considers to be its sphere of influence.
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It is for this reason that the Kremlin has conducted a frantic propaganda war to demonstrate Ukraine's abject failure, its rampant corruption, and to instruct others in Russia's "sphere of influence" not to follow Ukraine's example.
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The country's president, Vladimir V. Putin, has made no secret of his distaste for the Atlantic alliance's encroachment into territory he considers part of his sphere of influence — particularly in the Baltics and in the Balkans.
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Wajda's sphere of influence is vast, including Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Francis Ford Coppola, and he received most of the prizes major filmmakers can receive, including a Lifetime Achievement award from the Academy in 2000.
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It is certain to stir unease in Washington and Brussels, where officials are trying to keep Turkey — a longtime NATO member, and an increasingly unlikely candidate for European Union membership — from entering Russia's sphere of influence.
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But Moscow perceives a threat from NATO's advance and resents its effort to peel away Russia's traditional sphere of influence, helping fuel the confrontational turn in the Kremlin's foreign policy and renewed rivalry with the West.
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The contacts also underline how President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, focused on stopping the West encroaching on Russia's sphere of influence, has turned the Kremlin into de facto kingmaker in parts of the former Soviet Union.
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When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he believed the protesters were seeking to free Lebanon from Iran's sphere of influence, he only served to reinforce conspiracy theories that the West had coopted the movement.
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"Given Iran's continued pattern of aggression and the country's persistent efforts to expand its sphere of influence across the region, preserving these sanctions is critical," the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on Thursday.
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It seeks to undermine NATO's unity in the hopes of seeking a new grand bargain with the U.S. in which the U.S. will recognize Russia's sphere of influence and will not interfere in its internal issues.
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They never ask you for input or involve you in key decisions When they don't include you in big decisions related to your sphere of influence, it may be because your boss doesn't trust your opinion.
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To show that the artists in this region were already imbued with a sense of the modern was to counter the narrative that the Middle East needed to become modern by entering the Western sphere of influence.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not seeking a sphere of influence in Pacific Ocean island states, President Xi Jinping told the visiting prime minister of Vanuatu amid fears in Western capitals of China's growing role in the region.
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Bush dedicated his career to maintaining an international order that kept the U.S. in a preeminent position of global power, and that prevented the USSR and Russia from extending its power beyond its contiguous sphere of influence.
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In some cases, it reflects the close alignment between America and its allies like Israel or Britain; in others, such as Iraq or North Korea, it implies the threat of annexation to the American sphere of influence.
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After reaching nearly 3 million viewers one night earlier this week, it's easy to see why Maddow's sphere of influence has earned her the top spot — an honor previously help by Apple CEO Tim Cook and DeGeneres.
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When Moscow marched in troops to restore puppet communist regimes in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the United States sat on the sidelines rather than risk a nuclear calamity in the Russian sphere of influence.
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They face an unprecedented threat from the east, with Russia actively trying to undermine the sanctions and ultimately destroy the alliances that keep the Kremlin from reclaiming Eastern and Central Europe as its own sphere of influence.
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However, following the Yalta Conference of 22019, which extended Soviet territories west and allowed Moscow to dramatically increase its sphere of influence, many of these Lithuanian-Americans, along with other Baltic-Americans, felt betrayed by the Democrats.
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This would extend her sphere of influence to Mark Bradford and Glenn Ligon, but the case can be made that everyone from Cindy Sherman to Carrie Mae Weems to Barbara Kruger should be included in it, too.
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This could lead to a fragmented tech space in which China and countries in its sphere of influence seek to control the flow of information and the United States guards against foreign investment in American tech companies.
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Rebels accused the YPG of carrying out the blasts, which they say seek to sow fear in areas where Turkey has carved a sphere of influence with the help of Syrian Arab rebels it backs and arms.
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Members of Congress worry that Russia will use the Helsinki summit to undermine U.S. relations with NATO allies, especially with former East bloc and Soviet states that Putin views as within his country's traditional sphere of influence.
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While the Chinese military is carving out a greater sphere of influence in the Western Pacific, the I.N.F. Treaty constrains the United States from placing short- and intermediate-range missiles on land near China as a deterrent.
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Background: The Trump administration hopes its economic strategy of squeezing Iran and its allies, which kicked into high gear last November, will allow it to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal and limit that country's regional sphere of influence.
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Karimov's death could unleash a new round of jockeying between Russia, the United States and China, which are all trying to bring Central Asia, with its oil and gas reserves and metal ore, into their sphere of influence.
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Georgia is a test case for how Western governments will treat Ukraine, which, like Georgia, wants to join NATO and the European Union but is also jealously regarded by the Kremlin as part of its sphere of influence.
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These extreme marine temperatures â€" created by weather patterns and boosted by climate change â€" have a sphere of influence beyond the oceans, as this heat has contributed to unusual heat and mugginess on the heavily-populated coast.
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So what America sees as Russia's aggression, whether in Ukraine and Syria or in presidential elections, Mr Putin sees as a way of deterring America and preserving Russia's freedom to act without restraint in its sphere of influence.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran are at odds over a number of regional issues, including Iran's nuclear program and what Saudis see as Tehran's growing influence in the kingdom's sphere of influence, especially in Syria, Lebanon and neighboring Yemen.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran are at odds over a number of regional issues, including Iran's nuclear program and what Saudis see as Tehran's growing influence in the kingdom's sphere of influence -- especially in Syria, Lebanon and neighboring Yemen.
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"She concluded the post by announcing her dedication to future environmental and trans advocacy — "I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
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For the past year, scientists have pored over data collected during the lead-up and aftermath of the probe's passage from the major sphere of influence of the Sun into the void between stars, called the interstellar medium.
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But White House aides dismissed the notion that Kushner's sphere of influence would become an issue, describing him as "deferential" and a "team player" who is working in tandem with Cabinet secretaries, agency heads and White House staff.
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As Russian air power severely weakened Syria's rebel forces, Turkey was willing to temper its support for them in exchange for Russia's assent to a Turkish sphere of influence in northern Syria, where Turkey could block Kurdish expansion.
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China, too, can be a bully, especially with Asian governments in its immediate sphere of influence — imposing economic sanctions on South Korea for deploying defensive missiles or orchestrating the kidnapping of book publishers from Hong Kong and Thailand.
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But if he doesn't fully understand the value of the free West that NATO safeguards, and if he considers granting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia an authoritarian sphere of influence, that's something requiring a completely different response.
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"Are we prepared to let the Russians get away with the actions of eastern Ukraine?" he said, adding that would concede a sphere of influence to the Russians and rattle the nerves of US allies in the Baltic region.
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But Mr Trump might be prepared to accommodate another Russian goal: negotiating a new understanding, like the Yalta agreement in 1945, that would allow Russia a sphere of influence over much of the territory of the former Soviet Union.
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Meanwhile China has expanded its One Belt, One Road initiative, reached out to Southeast Asia with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and set up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to draw more countries into its sphere of influence.
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He'll pack our bags for us The administration's focus on bringing US troops back home, even if missions are not complete in key theaters like Syria, is a boon to Russian plans to expand its own sphere of influence.
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If the Iran deal was the pre-nup, the divorce won't be about who gets to keep how much enriched uranium as much as it will be about who gets which country or region as a sphere of influence.
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Syrian Arab rebels accused the YPG of carrying out the blasts, which they say seek to sow fear in areas where Turkey has carved a sphere of influence with the help of Syrian Arab rebels it backs and arms.
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Members of the committee on Wednesday were also frustrated by Pompeo declining to reveal whether Trump and Putin discussed the possibility of changing the U.S. force structure in Syria, which Putin regards as within his country's sphere of influence.
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Turkey's military involvement in Syria and Iraq is partly a response to the perception that Iran is increasingly encroaching on its historic sphere of influence, especially in and around the Aleppo and Mosul battlefields close to its southern border.
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While disasters happening within your sphere of influence are vivid and bright, with lava flowing down slopes or silt clogging streams, disasters that you hear about but don't witness are represented with sketch-like drawings in the fog of war.
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French involvement in Libya has long prompted resentment among Italian politicians and officials who suspect that France's involvement in a traditionally Italian sphere of influence is motivated by a desire to promote the interests of its big oil firm, Total.
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It may be a race that the U.S. is willing to concede, but it should be noted that Huawei's sphere of influence on other shores continues to expand, even as the company's ability to operate in the U.S. is completely proscribed.
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If you take these two things together — sharing a sensor picture and cooperative targeting — it means that if you have a lot of F-35 aircraft up in the sky, each of those pilots has an enormous sphere of influence.
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Already angry at NATO's expansion eastwards into its old Soviet sphere of influence, Putin said in a speech on Thursday that any attack on Moscow's allies would be regarded as an attack on Russia itself and draw an immediate response.
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"The Iranian-backed militias are trying to consolidate their sphere of influence all the way from southwest of Damascus to the Israeli border," said Suhaib al Ruhail, an official from the Liwa al Furqan rebel group that operates in the area.
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And her sphere of influence won't stop there: In addition to next year's Pitch Perfect 3, she'll soon appear alongside such comic powerhouses as Sacha Baron Cohen (The Brothers Grimsby, out March 11) and Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, due July 1).
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No longer reliant on the United States to provide them with the means to fight, this commercial bond presents Putin with an opportunity to deprive the U.S. of a strategic regional partner and draw Egypt back into its sphere of influence.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a packed itinerary in Papua New Guinea Friday at the start of a tour which marks Beijing's latest diplomatic foray into a region once considered outside of China's sphere of influence.
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A former senior Afghan official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, said that individual members of the Taliban's leadership council might well support the idea of talks and moving away from Pakistan's sphere of influence.
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Watch VICE News' The Russians Are Coming: Estonia's National Militia But what many Europeans viewed as an expanding bubble of peace and prosperity on their battle-scarred continent, most Russians saw as an encroachment into their traditional sphere of influence.
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Erdogan has previously voiced frustration that NATO member Turkey has not been more involved in the U.S.-backed assault on the Iraqi city, once part of the Ottoman empire and still seen by Turkey as firmly within its sphere of influence.
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If Mr. Trump delivers on his promise to downgrade America's traditional alliances in Asia, China will almost certainly capitalize on an American retreat by trying to push the United States aside in a region Beijing considers its natural sphere of influence.
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Rebels have long accused the powerful Kurdish YPG militia of carrying out blasts they say seek to sow fear in areas where Turkey has carved a sphere of influence with the help of Syrian Arab rebels it backs and arms.
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In this way, he hopes to keep Ukraine permanently destabilized, fueling domestic discontent at Kiev's inability to end the occupation, buying time to buy back the influence Russia lost by invading and bullying Ukraine into a Russian sphere of influence.
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Pompeo will have to perform a tricky balancing act, analysts say, as Pakistan is fast falling within China's sphere of influence and its arch-rival India is smarting over a series of trade threats and insults from President Donald Trump.
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The meeting in Astana, meant to send the message that Russia would seek to resolve the conflict in its sphere of influence, was markedly different from the United Nations-sponsored talks that have taken place in recent winters in Geneva.
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"This year's list of World's Most Powerful Women is a collection of innovators and instigators who are leading on the world stage to redefine traditional power structures and forge lasting impact in every industry and sphere of influence," she said.
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China has been building infrastructure in Nepal along with other South Asian countries as part of Xi's signature Belt and Road Initiative, raising disquiet in India which long saw countries such as Nepal as part of its sphere of influence.
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"You know, when the media would report that Hillary was up by 22, or 20, or 18, or 15, it never was consistent with what I was feeling, what I was hearing from my sphere of influence, my friends, family," Hoyt said.
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"The Russians normally harass our ships when they are operating in waters the Russian consider to be within their sphere of Influence (Black Sea, Barents Sea and the waters off Vladivostok)," said Schuster, who spent 12 years at sea on US warships.
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Although the fact that these passengers were unable to fly to the USA lies entirely outside KLM's sphere of influence, we decided to offer these passengers a voucher equivalent in value to the flight they were unable to take to the USA.
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Between the lines: As Ankara has lost priority in the U.S.' Middle East strategy, Erdogan has sought to reconfigure Turkey's sphere of influence, including warmer diplomatic and economic relations with Moscow — a move some of the U.S.' Arab allies have made as well.
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In addition, Putin will likely amplify digital attacks and disinformation to expand Russia's sphere of influence across the Baltic members, forcing NATO countries to validate whether a digital attack truly falls under the collective defense principles in Article 5 of the group's treaty.
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Moscow has long considered Afghanistan within its sphere of influence, and in 1979 the Soviet Union invaded the country, plunging itself into a decade-long war that massively destabilized the region and likely helped contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.
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Its position close to the Indian Ocean offers a shortcut for oil and gas imports from the Middle East, and its rich mineral deposits and proximity make it a logical part of China's sphere of influence on the mainland of Southeast Asia.
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In addition to courting the Philippines, China has used its clout and economic might to bring other Southeast Asian countries into its sphere of influence, including Cambodia, which American officials fear is being turned by Beijing into a military outpost for Chinese ambitions.
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While many of these developments have occurred in what could be considered Beijing's traditional sphere of influence, the Middle East is playing an "increasingly important role" as China surges toward becoming the next superpower, according to analysts Lindsey Ford and Max Hill.
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The new document said meetings in Astana, a capital five time zones east of Geneva with close ties to Turkey but firmly within Russia's sphere of influence, would be a forum to discuss specific issues that come up within the Geneva framework.
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In return, say Russian critics of the West like Alexander Lukin of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, he got nothing but aggravation: encroachment on Russia's sphere of influence through "colour revolutions" in Ukraine and other machinations and criticism of human-rights abuses.
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I agree with you that I am fortunate to have a platform, and maybe not everybody's got the same kind of level of outreach, but I think that each one of us, in our own way, can have a sphere of influence around us.
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From claiming parts of the sea as its own "blue-water territory," trying to subjugate and diminish Taiwan's democracy, and using its newfound economic military muscle to dominate Asia, Beijing seeks to turn the vast Indo-Pacific region into its own sphere of influence.
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But Russia's ongoing decline gives him a reason to act now rather than wait to disrupt pro-European reforms in countries that he sees as within his sphere of influence (although, happily, the EU has at last granted Ukrainians the right to visa-free travel).
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China props up India's nuclear-armed rival Pakistan with generous doses of arms and money; it has made increasingly bold inroads in smaller countries that India views as part of its own traditional sphere of influence, such as the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
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Qatar 'fake news' spat divides Arab media Saudi Arabia and Iran are at odds over a number of regional issues, including Iran's nuclear program and what Saudis see as Tehran's growing influence in the kingdom's sphere of influence -- especially in Syria, Lebanon and neighboring Yemen.
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"I'm much more concerned about other countries like Russia and China building technology that they use to oppress their own people and also expanding their sphere of influence over other countries," said Luckey, adding he doesn't intend to sell Anduril's technology to China or Russia.
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To the degree the Chinese feel shut out from a role in the core MDBs befitting the world's second largest economy, Beijing will continue to be strongly motivated to expand its multilateral presence outside of the core and outside of the U.S. sphere of influence.
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Events this weekend in Russian President Vladimir Putin's sphere of influence serve as a reminder his power: a top political opponent was arrested, an ally in the Czech Republic won re-election, and the leader of Crimea reiterated support for its links with Russia.
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If Russia pulls Turkey further into its sphere of influence, today's crises will look like a picnic compared with what would take their place — further entrenching Russian power at a time when our allies and interests in Europe are under assault as never before.
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In the absence of compelling figures at the top, the season wound up focusing heavily on Jorge Salcedo, the cartel's head of security, as he works with the D.E.A. to take down Cali and liberate himself and his family from its bloody sphere of influence.
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Trump wants Tillerson to run the State Department because he wants a top diplomat who'll make an improved relationship with Russia a top priority — achieved largely through unilateral US concessions on sanctions and de facto recognition of a Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
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But with two consecutive five-year renewals of my lease automatically built in and soon to start — ticktock — time is short for any such ponderosity about what a restaurant now is and what its sphere of influence may be and the responsibilities it may shoulder.
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That the Bulgarian election more or less coincided with Moldova's, in which a Russia-backed candidate won, as well as the reports of a failed pro-Russian coup attempt in Montenegro, led many to the conclusion that Russia was regaining its traditional sphere of influence.
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And a multinational army of proxies under the banner of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force operating from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen, have demonstrated Tehran's will and effectiveness in defending its sphere of influence and fighting threats from hostile states to nonstate participants.
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Or, would he stand aside and be subject to attacks from not only Democrats but also many Republicans for allowing Putin once again to expand Russia's sphere of influence and to render the Baltic states, in particular, even more vulnerable than they already are?
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Mr. Obama dropped efforts to contain Iran and sought a nuclear accord that would allow the West to normalize relations because he was convinced that recognition of an Iranian sphere of influence would persuade Tehran to function as a partner in stabilizing Iraq and Syria.
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Turkey has reached a potentially game-changing understanding with Russia in northern Syria — slackening support for besieged rebels in the divided city of Aleppo in exchange for a sphere of influence along its border — but continues to push the deal's boundaries politically and militarily.
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By spreading the use of its tactics to a region that is less closely monitored than the United States and Europe, researchers said Russia appeared to be trying to expand its sphere of influence in Africa, where it has started distributing propaganda and building a political infrastructure.
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Putin loves might-makes-right and hates the American grand strategy and wants to subjugate Ukraine in the name of his preferred alternative order and a Kremlin sphere of influence — the sort of closed empire the United States set out to replace with its own, better system.
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Moscow continues to see Central Asia as falling within its sphere of influence and early on had reservations about China&aposs economic expansion in the region — a reflection in part of lingering suspicion dating from their Cold War-era competition for leadership of the Communist bloc.
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The app's success most likely will depending on if King Bach can recruit users from outside of his existing sphere of influence — essentially users who use the app because it provides a solid editing experience, not because it was made by their favorite social media star.
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The bottom line: "China is seeking to find a sweet spot: to increase its influence in Nepal without upsetting India's security concerns in what used to be its predominant sphere of influence," Constantino Xavier, a foreign policy fellow at Brookings India in New Delhi, told the Times.
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For many of Ukraine's citizens — particularly those who waved European Union flags during bloody protests in Kiev, where more than 100 were killed — establishing closer ties with Europe became the main way they wanted to transform their country into a democratic state beyond Moscow's sphere of influence.
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We should learn from this that despite Moscow's claim of entitlement to a sphere of influence in the former Soviet Union, and that it can and should therefore be able to abridge the sovereignty of former Soviet states, its claims enjoy no popular support outside Moscow.
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If it were to lift sanctions without a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, however, the Trump administration would essentially send a green light to Moscow and other countries that it is content with Russia solidifying its sphere of influence in parts of Europe, or powerless to prevent it.
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And on the Ukraine issue there is no ideological division between Biden and mainstream Republicans — they all share the US national security establishment's hostility to Russia and support for the idea that the US should back efforts to pull Ukraine out of the Russian sphere of influence.
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It could also deepen the U.S. perception that took root under the Obama administration that the U.S. "interests lie more in Asia than in its traditional Atlantic sphere of influence," according to Sebastian Mallaby, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writing in The Washington Post.
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His vision of Yalta 2.0 is an agreement in which Russia regains an old-fashioned sphere of influence, keeping the former Soviet Republics (Russia's "near abroad") on a short leash without US or NATO interference, and perhaps extending a version of that power over former Eastern European satellites.
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I think what he's trying to do is control his environment, make sure that surrounding him there's a ring of compliant or friendly countries -- The "near abroad," the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union, the countries that many Russians still think of as within their sphere of influence.
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Several former Obama administration officials said that when Clinton was secretary of state, she was by far the most aggressive and outspoken U.S. official when it came to countering Putin's efforts to consolidate his power domestically, and to expand his sphere of influence in the region and beyond.
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Why it matters: More than two months after the United States and 50 other countries recognized National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as president of the country, Russia's latest power play is a defiant move to shape events in what has long been considered a U.S. sphere of influence.
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Xi was the first world leader to arrive in Port Moresby for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, China's Xinhua news agency reported, as China steps up its presence in a region that had until recently been an almost exclusive sphere of influence of staunch U.S. ally Australia.
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But follow the tendrils of money and influence out from the Kremlin and you reach Putin's real crucibles of cryptocurrency—the gray zones on the edges of his expanding sphere of influence, where the electricity is abundant, the regimes subservient, and the links back to his regime fuzzy.
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In the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine, President Putin articulated a nationalist agenda, claiming his intention to establish "Novo Russia," or New Russia in south and east Ukraine and to protect the "Russkiy Mir" the Russian World defined according to Russia's ethnic, linguistic and cultural sphere of influence.
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Since 1945, while the USSR curtailed all manner of freedoms for people living in its sphere of influence, the U.S. crafted what is known as the liberal international order, a network of institutions and like-minded nations grounded on the pursuit of democracy, national sovereignty, and personal and economic freedoms.
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Two large regional powers on either side of the Sunni-Shiite Islamic sectarian divide, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been engaged in a longstanding cold war, tussling for influence in countries in their sphere of influence, especially Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, where Saudi-led bombing has left thousands of civilians dead.
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Among the demands, the countries want Qatar to shut down its state-funded Al Jazeera news network, cut ties to extremist groups, halt the development of a Turkish military base in the country and weaken diplomatic ties with Iran, which they fear is increasing its sphere of influence in the region.
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Working together is not always easy — within and between divides of faith — but in the fight to protect choice regarding how women's bodies are cared for, protected, and also clothed, the modest-fashion sorority have a head start in that conversation, extending their sphere of influence from style to society.
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But the Trump administration's greatest worry may be in Asia, where the 1980s pact now constrains the United States from placing short- and intermediate-range missiles on land to respond to China's efforts to carve out a sphere of influence and keep naval forces at bay in the Western Pacific.
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Ideally, you would like to leave, but owing to the large orbital separation and substantial mass of Planet Nine, it's gravitational sphere of influence (Hill radius) extends about ~10 AU (roughly Saturn's orbital radius) above the surface, meaning you've got a long way to go before you escape Planet Nine's daunting gravity.
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Mr Sechin has quashed concerns about the exposure to Venezuela voiced by some members of the government, arguing that Russia should support the country as a proxy in the backyard of the United States, just as Ukraine and Georgia have served as proxies of the United States in Russia's sphere of influence.
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With U.S. troops recently sent to NATO ally Poland for the first time, which a Kremlin spokesman described as "a threat to us," it's easy to imagine Putin making a comparable mistake of trying to coerce the Baltic nations to rejoin the Russian sphere of influence, only to discover that the move backfires.
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China's official licensing of the port in December last year gives it yet another point of access over a key shipping route, and the prospect of providing it with a sizeable presence in India's immediate backyard and traditional sphere of influence, bringing China closer to India's shores than New Delhi might like.
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Instead, the political entity collapsed, turning the smaller Russia into an independent state surrounded by former Soviet republics that Russian officials came to refer to as their "near abroad" and continue to regard as part of Moscow's legitimate sphere of influence — just as it was under the thumb of Imperial and Soviet Russia.
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Dr Davies and his compadres were in Colombia, in the Serranía de las Quinchas, an area of cloud- and rain-forest in the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental that was, until a peace deal signed in 227, part of the sphere of influence of the FARC, a group of rebels fighting to overthrow the government.
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Miguel Antonio Bernal, a constitutional lawyer and self-described "agitator of conscience," said that Panama was still in effect trying to find its footing as an independent democracy after years of living under military dictatorships and within the American sphere of influence during the United States stewardship of the canal, which ended in 1999.
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China has traditionally moved carefully in Latin America, which it sees as falling under the U.S. sphere of influence, but has scored wins by flipping Panama and the Dominican Republic in the last 14 months at Taiwan&aposs expense, said Zhu Songling, a professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies at Beijing Union University.
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The Taliban and the Haqqani network "are the people who can guarantee them at least a sphere of influence in Afghanistan if things fell apart there," said Marvin Weinbaum, director for Pakistan studies at the Middle East Institute and former analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
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Mr. Peralta's defection does more than siphon power from the Democratic conference; it puts the independent group in position to expand its sphere of influence, pulling Republicans toward the political middle and offering John J. Flanagan, the Senate's Republican leader, an unbreachable bulwark against liberal policies favored by the Democrats who dominate the State Assembly.
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For Italy, Mr Macron's intervention is both good news and bad: bad if it gives France an enhanced role in Libya, a country that Italy, the former colonial power, has long seen as falling within its sphere of influence; good if it adds weight to the EU's hitherto clumsy efforts to halt the flow of migrants.
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It's yet another sign that podcasts are slowly and surely becoming more prevalent and mainstream, and that Google is very interested in making sure that it doesn't fall behind on ensuring this content is part of its overall search index and not the exclusive domain of other, more closed ecosystems that exist outside its sphere of influence.
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The Chinese also know Taiwan's security is a core focus for the US. Any increased Chinese pressure on Taiwan could be a double win for Xi because it serves China's interest in controlling Taiwan while concurrently hurting our focus on opposing further Chinese gains, especially while they try to extend their sphere of influence elsewhere in the region.
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Ankara has been in a row with Iraq over the presence of Turkish troops at the Bashiqa camp near Mosul, as well as over who should take part in the offensive in the largely Sunni Muslim city of Mosul, once part of the Ottoman empire and still seen by Turkey as firmly within its sphere of influence.
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Not long before leaving the White House, Benjamin Rhodes said that the Obama Administration was convinced that Putin had gone into an "offensive mode beyond what he sees as his sphere of influence," setting out to encourage the "breakup" of the European Union, destabilize NATO , and unnerve the object of his keenest resentment—the United States.
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Ankara has been locked in a row with Iraq over the presence of Turkish troops at the Bashiqa camp near Mosul, as well as over who should take part in the offensive in the largely Sunni Muslim city, once part of the Ottoman empire and still seen by Turkey as firmly within its sphere of influence.
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While railing against Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries, Mr. Trump has continually praised Mr. Putin's government: He has hailed Mr. Putin's tight control over Russian society, hinted that he may not defend the NATO-aligned Baltic nations formerly in Moscow's sphere of influence, and for a time employed a campaign chief with close ties to Ukraine's pro-Russian forces.
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If the US blocks anyone from its AI world that uses Chinese high-tech, in the same way it threatens secondary sanctions against businesses who trade, however remotely, with Iran -- then the world could be thrown back to the us-or-them days of the Soviet Union, when its Communist Party locked the rest of the world out of their sphere of influence.
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Up to now, the Central Asian states have been busy with state-building in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but now they need to face outwards as outside forces are interested in them: Russia sees Central Asia as part of its sphere of influence, and China needs it to accommodate its One Belt, One Road political-infrastructure project.
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Partovi says that Neo now counts roughly 30 "scholars" from across the U.S. and Canada, and that it has written 10 checks — some to people straight out of college, as with Jiang — and some to founders outside the Neo sphere of influence but who Partovi and Singer think are special in their own way — and who may eventually benefit from an introduction to someone in Neo's world.
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This new breach comes at a time amidst new tensions between the US and China, The latter has worked in recent years to expand its sphere of influence, laying claim on the South China Sea — part of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, performing military exercises and building artificial islands to help support its forces and to bolster its territorial claims.
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However, the acknowledgment of a Russian sphere of influence or Novorossiya and the audacious claim by Trump and Gingrich, legitimized by foreign policy critics – that the U.S. should somehow question its Article V ironclad commitment to collective defense of all allies because of defense spending or a countries proximity to Russia – undercuts the very norms that have kept Europe and the world at peace for so long.
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If Trump were able to reorient America's foreign policy to be less predictable and unencumbered by alliances, we'd have a return to the world before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941—a patchwork of regional powers, each with their own sphere of influence, with the U.S. willing to launch the occasional attack on a smaller power but uninterested in helping to advance peace around the world.
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He wants to use Syria as a live-fire exercise for Russia's modernizing military, he wants to turn Latakia province into a military outpost from which to harden and enforce a Russian sphere of influence -- a new Kaliningrad, or Crimea -- and he wants to exacerbate the refugee crisis and use it as a weapon to divide the trans-Atlantic alliance and undermine the European project.
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In this context, there are two courses of action held for consideration: suspending these large-scale joint American-South Korean military war-game exercises throughout the peninsula, which have only acted as catalytic threats to North Korea's national interests and sphere of influence, and sending Bill Richardson and Colin Powell to Pyongyang to negotiate with Kim a stand-down arrangement involving his thermonuclear program.
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But while Kerry did meet with CNRP members and civil society representatives during his visit to Phnom Penh, according to Ou Virak, a political analyst and founder of the Future Forum think tank, willingness on the part of the US government to intervene in human rights concerns in Cambodia will likely be tempered by a desire to increase its clout in China's sphere of influence.
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Mr. Putin has for years — 17 years, to be exact, for this is how long he has been in power — been clear about what he wanted from his relationship with the United States president: He wants to be treated as an equal partner on the world stage and not to be questioned about or pressed on the Russian government's actions inside Russia or in what he considers his sphere of influence.
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In this pursuit, Serbia can therefore be expected to create, at Russia's behest, a sphere of influence by exploiting and inciting Serb minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and, to an extent, Croatia and Macedonia — leaving them weak states to dominate while it pursues entry to the European Union just when the union is preoccupied by internal challenges of its own and the international order itself is exposed to multiple uncertainties.
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Russia, according to Western analysts, has mounted a campaign to "discredit the West's liberal democratic model, and undermine trans-Atlantic ties," manipulating Eastern European countries and "supporting the far right" against the EU. That "Kremlin Playbook" includes tampering with elections in Europe and the US. Clinton stands in direct defiance to Putin's vision, already partly in place, of a Russia with a sphere of influence that includes the former Soviet territory and, more loosely, Eastern Europe, alongside a weakened Europe, US and NATO.
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