Sentence examples for buffer state with a from inspiring English sources

Russia wants to turn Ukraine back into a buffer state, with a level of disorder it can turn up or down.

What was left of the Commonwealth was merely a small buffer state with a puppet king, and Russian garrisons keeping an eye on the reduced Polish army.

Russia's Yalta like need of spheres of influence and buffer states is also in direct conflict with globalization.

Why does Russia think it needs buffer states?

But, of the two thousand easements needed to buffer the state with dunes, only about eight hundred had been signed.

The best they could come up with was a buffer state covering the Wadi Sirhan, with Trans-Jordanian influence in the north and Wahhabi influence in the south [16].

For most of the 20th century, Mongolia, a landlocked expanse of Asian prairie and desert twice the size of Texas, was trapped and isolated -- a Communist buffer state wedged between the Soviet Union and China with little economic development and less contact with the rest of the world.

Modern Afghanistan was cobbled together as a buffer state in the late 19th century by British India and czarist Russia, with its first modern ruler, Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, picked from among the princelings of a warring Pashtun clan.

Long written off as a buffer state between China and Russia, Mongolia, twice the size of Texas but with 13percentt of the population, is embarking on a classic exercise in modern nation building.

The Chinese must have factored this into their calculations and concluded that the prospect of Japan with nuclear weapons is less bad than losing North Korea as a buffer state.

As a result, a new user entering the network or an existing user switching from idle (empty buffer) to active (with a packet in the buffer) state would suffer outage.