SPHERE OF INFLUENCE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of sphere of influence in English

(Definition of sphere of influence from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of sphere of influence

sphere of influence
Clearly the communists were interested in bringing the unions within their sphere of influence and this would seem both a logical and justifiable position.
However, the other communities have contested his decision-making power beyond the community's political sphere of influence.
The collaboration is likely to expand its sphere of influence.
Using 14, all obstacles inside the sphere of influence are included in the repulsive velocity.
Each port signified the country's establishment in a different sphere of influence.
In the 1930s, employers and officials increasingly intervened in the jobbers' sphere of influence.
A famous satire describes the 'partition' of a husband's body, each of the man's two wives claiming a side as her sphere of influence.
Each has been popular in its own sphere of influence.
The inclusion of secondary employment (locals hired by wellpaid aid workers to wash, cook, clean, etc.) expands the sphere of influence somewhat, but does not point to widespread transformation.
Such strategies may include expanding their sphere of influence into areas covered by other bodies, developing informational advantages over others by getting close to front-line groups, or attracting extra resources.
A town's diversity of trade and occupation, its institutions, functions and sphere of influence, could endow it with a significance beyond that indicated by the size of its population.
We are therefore establishing a sphere of influence and thus doing something ourselves which we sharply criticise in others.
I am in favour of extending that sphere of influence; in favour of consolidating those particular nations into an economic whole, if possible.
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To widen the sphere of influence for women is a good thing in every sense of the word.
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But many people feel that this is an attempt to establish a sphere of influence.
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Translations of sphere of influence

in Chinese (Traditional)
(國家或機構的)勢力範圍,影響範圍…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(国家或机构的)势力范围,影响范围…
in Spanish
esfera de influencia…
in Portuguese
esfera de influência…
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