Sentence examples for former spheres from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

PRAGUE — The European Union sought on Thursday to intensify political and economic ties with six former Soviet republics, while seeking to reassure Russia that it was not trying to assert itself in Moscow's former sphere of influence.

He placed blame for the rift on Mr. Bush's efforts to build a missile defense system and enlarge NATO in Moscow's former sphere of influence, making no mention of Russia's war with Georgia last year.

The humanitarian protest against the rule of Leopold was led by traders who had lost access to their former sphere of interest, by missionaries who deplored the denial of human rights, and by a British diplomat who believed in political freedom.

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.

In the former sphere, traditions could have been subject to invention while in the latter sphere, aside from exceptional cases, the material may have been only subject to "tendential shaping".

Analysts say such a move will only fuel the rising tensions between NATO and Russia, which is spooked by the alliance's growing footprint in its former sphere of influence in eastern Europe.

Again, each sphere touches 12 other spheres.

Porosity of the electrode is controlled by adding pore former particles (spheres) to the electrode and ignoring them in analysis step.