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The BBC is supportive of the aims of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and, in publishing an annual statement, the BBC recognises the importance of the role it can play in preventing modern slavery within its spheres of influence, to create a culture of awareness and transparency and actively engage in the eradication of modern slavery.
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Beijing is accumulating bargaining chips, he said, to be used with the US and South Korea in dialogue over the installation of the missile defense system, which China views as an encroachment of US interests within its sphere as it attempts to assert military influence in Asia.
Rather than a change of heart on press freedoms, still stifled at home, Russia's stance in Kyrgyzstan appeared to be a new tactic in dealing with the former Soviet republics it regards as within its sphere of influence.
Russia is still far from reconciled to NATO's presence in countries that it regards as being within its "sphere of privileged interests".
A key 1957 case of public nuisance stated that: "A nuisance is a public nuisance if, within its sphere, which is the neighbourhood, it materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of Her Majesty's subjects".
Although Russia has apparently stopped short of trying to topple the pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili, it is stating that Georgia lies within its sphere of influence and that, for example, Georgian membership of NATO would not be tolerated.
Last week, at the leading European particle physics laboratory, CERN, an institution straddling the French-Swiss border far from the superhot center of American politics but well within its sphere of influence, the question arose: is it more important to determine who the next American president will be or to discover why all matter in the universe has mass, rather than weighing nothing?
Just 8 months into the establishment of the nickel mine there was an international slump in nickel prices and while this was not in BHP's control, how it treated its employees and local community was within its sphere of influence and responsibility.
Like Russia, Iran views Afghanistan as within its "sphere of influence," as The Washington Post's Erin Cunningham characterized it earlier this year.
Inter-departmental jealousies meant that MAFF wanted to keep BSE within its sphere of influence.
Russia, which considers Kyrgyzstan within its sphere of influence, has opposed the base.
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