Sentence examples for legitimate spheres from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, the Obama administration seems to have adopted the Bush administration's policy of meddling in the legitimate spheres of interest of a deeply concerned Russia and a docile and divided Europe with the risk of disrupting a delicate regional security balance.

The former is a legitimate sphere for legislation.

Which raises a key question: Who was to decide how, precisely, to define that "legitimate sphere of state sovereignty"?

I can not, therefore, too strongly or too earnestly, for my own sense of its importance, warn you against all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of state sovereignty".

Masha Lipman told me that in Moscow NATO expansion felt like "an encroaching force advancing closer and closer to what Russia regarded as its legitimate sphere of influence".

The Kremlin has viewed the U.S. as Russia's major competitor for regional influence in the former Soviet Union's republics, an area that the Russian government sees as its legitimate sphere of interest.

The enactment of this statute was, in itself, within the legitimate sphere of the legislative power of the state, and in the observance of those general rules prescribed by our systems of jurisprudence; and the legislature of the state of New York determined that it did not inflict cruel and unusual punishment, and its courts have sustained that determination.

Through its military punishment of Georgia last year, Russia has signaled it will not tolerate further encroachments into what the Kremlin sees as its legitimate sphere of influence.

What had been presented as an open and shut case of Soviet expansion by Harvard Professor Richard Pipes on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour could just as easily have been defined as a defensive action within the Soviets' legitimate sphere of influence.

The question is whether we're going toward a future in which China will justifiably be able to establish a legitimate sphere of influence in this neighborhood in an orderly fashion.

To different degrees all three are oppressive regimes, each in its own way with its particular ideological justification, whether the Communist Party's alleged superior wisdom and management skills, Russia's legitimate sphere of interests as a Great Power or Islam's right to a national theocracy.