Though not itself an industrial city, Mons has, through two successive mergers, extended its sphere to include several industrial zones.
As Nazi Germany extended its sphere of influence in the late 1930s and Hungary appeared in imminent danger of capitulation, Bartók found it impossible to remain there.
Instead, syncretism acknowledged the overlap between the roles of the gods involved, and it extended the sphere of influence for each of them.
This does not affect the generality of the approach, and the method and results obtained for four spheres could be easily extended to six sphere phantoms.
That enabled the United States to extend its sphere of influence and, in some cases, to place foreign governments under its control.
At a time when Russia was trying to extend its sphere of influence, supporting Lukashenko was seen "as the lesser evil", Forbrig said, although added there was no evidence this was an effective policy.
The vote has also become a test between determination by Russia to extend its sphere of influence to the Adriatic Sea and a campaign by the European Union and the United States to stabilize the Balkans.
From cloning to nanotechnologies or synthetic biology, our increasingly far-reaching attempts at extending the sphere of human influence have thrown up an array of questions about where the "artificial" ends and the "natural" begins.
The ISE is still state-owned, and like the WSE has not managed to extend its sphere of influence much, apart from stakes in the exchanges of Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.
Like a superpower, Microsoft has good reason to defend, even extend, its sphere of influence: what the firm calls its "ecosystem .Until recently, Microsoft excelled in an extreme form of unilateralism.
