Sentence examples for projecting influence from inspiring English sources

In fact, what would keep Iran from throwing its own weight around – grabbing territory and projecting influence throughout the region.

Ohlin lauded the authors' "expert job of marshalling empirical evidence to look at the cases of conquered territory," but emphasized we now "live in a world where territory is less relevant". The era of projecting influence by seizing territory has passed, Ohlin said.

ZAKHO, Iraq — A Turkey as resurgent as at any time since its Ottoman glory is projecting influence through a turbulent Iraq, from the boomtowns of the north to the oil fields near southernmost Basra, in a show of power that illustrates its growing heft across an Arab world long suspicious of it.

Lord Bramall also told the paper the Royal Navy did not have enough ships to carry out "everyday duties of projecting influence, tackling piracy and all the other things they have to do all over the world".

Perhaps it has always been better at projecting influence than exercising it.

Douglas Paal, vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace's Asia Program, told VICE News the calculus for China had as much to do with domestic pressures as projecting influence in Asia.

A weakened Assad will damage Iran's ability to project influence in the region.

Pentagon officials have described it as an attempt by Tehran to project influence among Iraq's majority Shiite population.

Pakistan has long supported the Taliban, to project influence in Afghanistan and to help control its own large Pashtun population.

"We have no interest in using Afghanistan as a platform to project influence into neighboring countries," he said.

For Brazil, hosting the conference creates an opportunity to project influence into different parts of the developing world.