Russia has frequently chafed at the American military presence in what it considers its sphere of influence.
Russia has increasingly sought to challenge what it sees as meddling by NATO countries, particularly the United States, in what it considers its sphere of influence.
Indirectly but purposefully, China will sow death and chaos around the world as it establishes its sphere of influence.
The church has settled for autonomy: it will run its sphere, and let the state mind the temporal shop.
For France, it is an opportunity to engage more muscularly in a largely French-speaking region that it has long considered in its sphere of interest.
Russia is still far from reconciled to NATO's presence in countries that it regards as being within its "sphere of privileged interests".
Russia would like to keep both countries in its sphere of influence, but it is likely to use economic, rather than military, measures.
It was ruled by Moscow for centuries until 1991 and Russia still sees it as an integral part of its sphere of influence.
Some were even afraid that it might start bossing smaller countries around in its sphere of interest.
While Russia was getting more hard-nosed about controlling its sphere of influence, in 2013, the US announced it was abandoning the Monroe Doctrine.
It is also clear that, on reflection, defiant humanism must share its sphere with the Crow.
