Sentence examples for became a buffer from inspiring English sources

She became a buffer between the crowds and her father, who was happy to deflect the attention.

Afghanistan, therefore, although never dominated by a European imperial government, became a buffer between tsarist Russia and British India.

Amal Saad Ghorayeb, a Lebanese academic who has written a book on Hizbullah, said the Lebanese government had "become a buffer squeezed between Israel and Hizbullah".

Pulled between Iran and the Arab world, Iraq appears likely to become a "buffer state," said Joost Hiltermann, the senior Iraq analyst at the International Crisis Group, a research organization based in Washington and Brussels.

Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania have said they will close their borders if Germany or other countries shut the door on refugees, warning they will not let the Balkan region become a "buffer zone" for stranded migrants.

The softness of the textile becomes a buffer zone of flowery textile against patches of incomprehension [20, 21, 22].

As the ratio of Ph.D. recipients to tenure-track jobs in psychology departments has ratcheted higher, postdoctoral research positions have become a buffer.

However, the Turkish side was reluctant as the officials feared that Turkey would become a buffer zone and a dumping ground for irregular migrants if they signed the readmission agreement (Bürgin 2012, 2013).

These countries want to become a buffer between the European Union and Russia, and at the same time emerge as a tough opponent of the European Commission's immigration policies.

The Argyle Scots had been brought to upstate New York to become a buffer between the French and Indians and English settlers.

Not until 2007 were there moves towards a football rapprochement as all eight founding clubs of the CFA, including Cetinkaya, whose original ground in Nicosia fell within what became a UN buffer zone, were invited to the opening of the association's new headquarters in the capital.