Some Western diplomats, Congolese officials and Rwandan dissidents now believe that the Rwandan government is simply using the F.D.L.R. as an excuse to prop up Mr. Nkunda and maintain a sphere of influence in the mineral-rich area across the border.
Analysts say that Russia's spy agencies are also believed to be operating in Cyprus, whose location close to the Middle East helps Russia to maintain its sphere of influence there.
Writing about the most intimate details of puberty or medical treatments, he manages to maintain a sphere of privacy while fulfilling the writers obligation to tell his readers what they need to know.
We have intervened in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Grenada to maintain our sphere of influence in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
There was an intelligibility if not a friendly intimacy in the old contest, one between two large, idealistic, rough-mannered nations seeking to maintain their spheres of influence short of tripping nuclear war.
While in many ways household members work towards common goals, women and men maintain separate spheres of responsibility; control of resources generated in female-led activities differs from that generated in male-led activities (Anderson and Eswaran 2009).
After 7 days of the Oct-4 siRNA treatment, the SB of LC-CD133+ could not maintain floating spheres but differentiated into attached epithelial-like cells (Fig. 5C).
The correlation between the expression of Sca-1 and the ability to form myospheres in culture supports our theory that Sca-1 is involved in the cell-cell contacts that maintain these sphere-like structures in culture.
This observation was not restricted to mouse cells as LN-18 human glioma cells, which were found to be most sensitive to detachment-induced cell death among a panel of human cell lines, also acquired resistance to Cil when maintained as sphere cultures.
If you can maintain a separate sphere of just business, then greed is good, but the way the world is being constructed today, you can't maintain the separate sphere.
