Soon after the wall fell, I recall writing that unless the western allies and the Soviets came to a firm agreement of spheres of influence and a neutral zone in Middle Europe and the Baltic a dangerous series of clashes was inevitable.
Firms in the family sphere benefit from a network of carefully fostered contacts.
The firm arranged to work with Sphere Consulting, a public-relations and lobbying business in Washington.
Tocqueville created what he thought was a necessary and firm boundary between two distinct spheres of human concern: private religious life, where everything appears to be certain and fixed, and public life, where all is open to experiment and argument.
And the xiao long bao are small miracles; plump, round spheres soft yet firm to the touch, delicately fragranced.
However, the intersections between the top and bottom structures should be firm enough to form a perfect hollow sphere when the PS sphere is etched away the experiment.
Or it could be an oil firm, or someone in the financial sphere.
Formally stated: With respect to social influence benefits, firms aiming to establish a broad sphere of influence on external stakeholder are more likely to create undirected interlocks.
Institutions established and run by the state are in the public sphere, as are business firms that seek to sell products and services to individuals or to other businesses.
His formidable first wife, Siu-Yong, portrayed with sly humor and a measure of cold steel by Julyana Soelistyo (also a standout as Ahn in the original production), stands firm against any disruptions to the domestic sphere.
