Sentence examples for historic spheres from inspiring English sources

But unless Europe and the United States embrace the big changes taking place in Turkey, they could lose much influence, as Turkey and Russia, the new regional superpowers, return to their historic spheres of influence.

Three novelties stand out.First is a shift of focus from France's old historic spheres towards a "strategic arc" of instability that stretches from the Atlantic via the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and Horn of Africa and on to south Asia.

We enforce the “outer limits” of Congress’ Commerce Clause authority not for their own sake, but to protect historic spheres of state sovereignty from excessive federal encroachment and thereby to maintain the distribution of power fundamental to our federalist system of government.

It sees them as part of its historic sphere of influence (all were part of the Soviet Union), and it wants to deny them to NATO for any future expansion.

Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a magazine, thinks that the Russian leadership has concluded that "the European Union is just a new kind of empire": one that threatens to continue to expand into Russia's historic sphere of influence.

This was tough to take, and Russia had repeatedly warned the West that its interests in its historic sphere of influence needed to be minded, and that it did not feel safe when a military alliance formed explicitly to confront its legal predecessor, the U.S.S.R., was advancing to its doorstep.

Perhaps his most striking example was Russia's new attitude in the former Soviet nations of Central Asia, where the growing American military presence has convinced many Russian military officials and private experts that Washington wants to push Moscow out of its historic sphere of influence.

It is part of a larger Russian push into Latin America to secure new markets, and also to swipe at the United States for what Moscow considers Washington's meddling in Russia's historic sphere of influence, particularly in Ukraine and Georgia, former Soviet republics.

It is part of a larger Russian push into Latin America to secure new markets, and also to swipe at the United States for what Moscow considers Washington's meddling in Russia's historic sphere of influence, particularly in the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia.

The way Moscow sees it, the E.U. caused this mess by trying to pull Ukraine out of Russia's historic sphere of influence.

Indirectly, it means that these countries will be pushed back into Russia's historic sphere of influence, even though no one in the European Union would openly admit it".