Sentence examples for soviet sway from inspiring English sources
In addition, analysts say, the years as a divided country under American and Soviet sway has led many Germans to believe that they are better off avoiding taking part in conflicts entirely.
If Gorbachev had chosen to use force in those countries under Soviet sway, none could have resisted.
Putin seized Ukraine's Crimea region, part of an undisguised plan to reëstablish Soviet-era muscular sway in Europe.
The race will play out about 900 miles south of Moscow, in the humid seaside resort where generations of Soviet families have enjoyed swaying palm trees and sulfuric mineral baths; the city has about 400,000 people.
Like many British directors of the late '20s and early '30s, Powell here seems under the sway of the Soviet montage directors.
The development seems likely to further unnerve European Union nations, already wary of their dependence on Russian energy and what critics say are efforts by Moscow to use oil and natural gas exports as leverage to reassert sway over former Soviet nations.
Soviet leaders would not be swayed by good-will gestures.
In contrast to African leaders who fell under the sway of the Soviets in the cold war, he emphasized his disapproval of a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
However, some analysts say Russia is likely to use its political, historical and financial sway over the post-Soviet country to urge President Yanukovych to take a tougher approach to solving the political crisis on its doorstep.
Gitmo's main purpose in the late nineteen-seventies and eighties was ostentatious, technological muscle-flexing: showing Cuba and the Soviets that the United States still held sway in the Caribbean, in what one captain called a "visible manifestation of interest".
Today, the Vladimir Putins and Hu Jintaos and Mahmoud Ahmadinejads of the world — to say nothing of their junior counterparts in places like Sudan, Zimbabwe, Burma and North Korea — are no more likely than were Soviet leaders in 1924 to be swayed by "moral influence".
