Sentence examples for extension of influence from inspiring English sources
One Power will not in the sphere of the other make acquisitions, conclude Treaties, accept sovereign rights or Protectorates, nor hinder the extension of influence of the other.
It is as part of this broader extension of influence that the South China Sea will be a focus of concern.Time to prepare for a rainy dayThat concern will be heightened by two particular aspects of China's military modernisation.
And the Saudis want their fellow Arabs to settle down quietly and stop all this talk of democracy and revolution.The infectious mood of the Arab spring, along with Iran's extension of influence into troubled Iraq and Syria, has challenged both those policies in recent years.
This achievement aided in the extension of British influence as well as in the annexation of the Gold Coast colony.
Hizbullah, the strongest Shia party, sees the extension of UN influence in Lebanon as a Trojan horse for western domination.
The extension of French influence and domain toward the north and east was the result of resourceful diplomacy at the expense of the empire.
After the war Thomas was appointed the first director of the League of Nations International Labour Organisationn; he worked for the extension of its influence and the elaboration of international labour law.
First, it would mean a big extension of Russian influence (though the time to worry about that was when striking the weekend deal).
Today, more than half of U.S. banknotes, including the vast majority of hundred-dollar bills, are held outside the country, acting as a store of value more dependable than local currencies and as an extension of American influence.
Early in July, the candidacy of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a relative of the Prussian king, for the Spanish throne had alarmed the French, who feared that the extension of Prussian influence into Spain would threaten France.
Later, Venetian advances in Greece, Albania, and Byzantium and the extension of Hungarian influence in Walachia and Danubian Bulgaria compelled Bayezid to blockade Constantinople (1391 98), to occupy Tirnova, in what is now Bulgaria (July 1393), and to conquer Salonika (April 1394).
