Sentence examples for assertion of spheres from inspiring English sources

As a tool of great power or imperial control, the assertion of spheres of influence can bring order to peripheral areas but can contribute to conflicts when rival powers seek exclusive influence in the same area or when secondary or client states resist subordination.

But Russia, for all its assertion of a sphere of "privileged interests" looks impotent in Kyrgyzstan after rejecting pleas to send troops to stop the carnage.Voters saw the referendum as a choice between parliamentary democracy with a maternal president, and further instability and violence.

Twenty-six whimagesages of spheres.

08 Square of Spheres.

Mr. Biden rejected recent Russian assertions of a restored sphere of privileged interests in the former Soviet Union, made after the war in Georgia.

Yet Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's foreign minister, seems discomfited by the recent assertion of Russia's Vladimir Putin that the Balkans had always been a sphere of Russian special interest and that it was "natural that a resurgent Russia is returning there".

The second is overbearing assertion of power.

It was an assertion of selfhood.

It is an assertion of values".

"It is the assertion of a promise.

§ 43.1 Administrative determination and assertion of claims.