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Origin of sphere of influence First recorded in — Words nearby sphere of influence sphenorbital , sphenotic , spher- , spheral , sphere , sphere of influence , spherical , spherical aberration , spherical angle , spherical astronomy , spherical coordinate. Words related to sphere of influence ambit , bailiwick , mandate , niche , orbit , power base , territory. Each port signified the country's establishment in a different sphere of influence.
In the s, 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.
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. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English.
I am in favour of extending that sphere of influence ; in favour of consolidating those particular nations into an economic whole, if possible. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. To widen the sphere of influence for women is a good thing in every sense of the word. But many people feel that this is an attempt to establish a sphere of influence.
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