She became a buffer between the crowds and her father, who was happy to deflect the attention.
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".
Afghanistan, therefore, although never dominated by a European imperial government, became a buffer between tsarist Russia and British India.
Rice and Gates will point out that a Shiite-dominated Iraqi government could become a buffer because Iraqis do not like a foreign presence.
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.
As the ratio of Ph.D. recipients to tenure-track jobs in psychology departments has ratcheted higher, postdoctoral research positions have become a buffer.
So Moseley's Support Solutions unit has become a buffer against the possibility of declining sales in the company's military-hardware business, increasing revenues at a time when demand for combat systems is expected to soften.
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.
