Overlapping spheres of influence and frozen conflicts could again cause major conflict.

The influence and if you have noticed, one of my spheres of influence is biology is from a grasshopper.

Lately, we have noted with great concern talk of creating new spheres of influence.

Counting colonies and spheres of influence, the world map would eventually look like this.

The new Europe, a Europe without dividing lines and spheres of influence, needs an improved CSCE.

3. In 1899, these three Powers signed a Tripartite Treaty dividing the Samoan archipelago into spheres of influence.

Have the British, French, and even Israelis become armed extensions of the US in their respective spheres of influence?

Their initial disorientation turned, subsequently, into a renewal of dormant traditional competition for spheres of influence in changing circumstances.

The United Nations enables us to work together to thwart ruthless assertion of self interest and spheres of influence.

The concept of dividing countries or regions into spheres of influence set the stage for the Second World War.

Meanwhile, German diplomacy is actively reconstructing the country s economic and cultural spheres of influence, and not only in Eastern Europe.

Throughout its history, Estonia was mostly in the spheres of influence of its neighbours, Czarist Russia, the Swedish crown or the German barons.

None can avoid the realities of a world of ongoing arms proliferation, regional war, and the possibility of a return to potentially antagonistic spheres of influence.

Big Pharma and the government, and chances are we may be right, but our influence in these spheres is relatively limited.

Spheres

Roles should, however, be demarcated clearly to ensure complementarity of purpose and support, without any undue influence or encroachment on each other's mandates or spheres of competency.

There was a lack of clarity and mixed interests among the major geo political centres with regard to new independent States with regard to spheres of influence.

Music of the spheres.

Above all, the European Union and its member states cannot allow Russia to recapture its imperial spheres of influence without severely damaging its own central interests.

In 1939 the Soviet Union signed the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact a non aggression pact with Nazi Germany dividing Eastern Europe into two separate spheres of influence.

The ongoing arms race, the potential of a return to antagonistic spheres of influence, and the threat of regional hegemony all carry within them the dangers of conflict and destabilization.

On September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Axis Pact, which divided the world into spheres of influence and was implicitly directed at the United States.

While this rivalry will have a military component, as evidenced by China s enormous military buildup, it will manifest itself primarily in terms of economic, political, and normative spheres of influence.

The main interest of the businessmen and warlords in the opposition is to protect their unregulated commercial activities in their respective spheres of control and influence that generate profits for them.

Should we regress to the system of spheres of influence which has led to so many wars over the last two hundred years? These questions have still not been adequately answered.

Clinton s trip should signal America s firm commitment to building an independent and democratic Ukraine, and make clear that the US rejects a European security order based on spheres of influence.

The pact contained a secret protocol, revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945, according to which the states of Northern and Eastern Europe were divided into German and Soviet spheres of influence .

All these problems are too serious and too tragic for speculation about neo imperial plans of Russia, diplomatic rivalry, or the search for new spheres of influence by neighbouring and distant Powers.

These include the intensification of inter ethnic conflicts, the creation of zones with quot security vacuums quot , and outside attempts to destabilize the newly independent States and establish quot spheres of influence quot .

These were white spheres.

Faced with such a challenge, some even suggest that the modern project of international cooperation be abandoned for a return to power politics, spheres of influence and other discredited and dangerous techniques of the past.

It is not only late but unacceptable to ponder the plans of architects who speak of spheres of influence and to consult contractors who wish to build on sand or, worse, on a slippery slope.

This was truly the music of the spheres.

The region in and around Syria is also populated by extremist Islamist groups that are attempting to expand their spheres of influence and that are quick to capitalize on instability in any country.

In particular, France has always considered Sub Saharan Africa and the Arab world to be natural spheres of political and strategic influence that are necessary to maintaining its position as a global power.

quot In the event of a territorial or political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Baltic States, the northern boundary of Lithuania shall represent the boundary of the spheres of influence of Germany and the USSR. quot

Two decades ago, the West rejected spheres of influence, because Europe s bloody history taught us that compelling nations to align themselves with others against their will was wrong and a recipe for future conflict.

Unlike majority influence, minority influence can rarely influence others through normative social influence because the majority is indifferent to the minority's perspective of them.

(9) Regional cooperation in other spheres.

The size of the neighborhoods (or spheres of influence) vary with radius formula_73 formula_74where formula_75 is the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit relative to the Sun formula_76 and formula_77 are the masses of the planet and Sun, respectively.

Moreover, the withdrawal takes an initial step towards remedying the consequences of a breach of international law, namely, the secret protocols to the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939, by which Europe was divided into spheres of influence.

Participants identified a range of responsibilities of business in the extractive sector, focusing on doing no harm to human rights, avoiding complicity in human rights violations and undertaking certain acts to support human rights in companies' spheres of influence .

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We have made substantial progress in each of these spheres.

The trend was similar in other spheres.