Sentence examples for former sphere from inspiring English sources

But the bitterest pill of all was NATO's expansion into Russia's former sphere of influence.

The former sphere of signification is made to correspond to "shape" and the latter to form proper.

Russia has complained that Guuam has become an American tool to counter Russian influence in its former sphere.

But today the Soviet Union is no longer there to dampen proliferation in its former sphere of influence.

But Putin has long bristled at the alliance's expansion into its former sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

With pale-blue shirts and epaulets, garish hats and flashlights, the traffic police officers -- who stand hip-deep in traffic and point and nod at passing cars -- are a perennially unpleasant presence through much of Moscow's former sphere of influence.

Russia, meanwhile, is motivated by its own strategy to counter what it views as Nato expansion into its former spheres of influence.

But this did not occur everywhere in the former Soviet sphere.

Many other countries, notably those in the former Soviet sphere like Ukraine, Belarus and Bulgaria, have ineffective controls.

The trade bloc, which included Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, was intended as a counterweight to expanding EU political and economic influence in the former Soviet sphere.

Now Poland and eight other countries, most from the former Soviet sphere of Central and Eastern Europe, have adopted the common visa, asylum and external border procedures required for membership.