1) sphere of influence. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...sphere of influence, term formerly applied to an area over which an outside power claims hegemony with the intention of subsequently gaining more definite control,...
2) sphere of influence. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. spheres of influence A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation....
3) 29658. Humphrey, Hubert H. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:29658 QUOTATION:If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common...
4) 2. The German Democratic Republic (East Germany). 2001. The Encyclopedia of
World History
...Republic (East Germany) The outbreak of the cold war left eastern Germany in the Soviet sphere of influence. The new German state that emerged east of the Elbe, constructed...
5) dominion. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...their souls in his possession, and under his dominion (Jonathan Edwards). 2. A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm. 3. often Dominion abbr. Dom....
6) globalism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A national geopolitical policy in which the entire world is regarded as the appropriate sphere for a state's influence. global·ist -NOUN...
7) §10. Henry Brooke: "The Fool of Quality". III. Sterne, and the Novel of His
Times. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and
American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...With Brooke, we return once more, in however loose a sense, to what may be called the sphere of influence of Sterne; and, like Mackenzie, he, too, has sat at the...
8) Niger. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...by the Songhai and Bornu empires in the 16th century. Niger came under the French sphere of influence after the Conference of Berlin (1884-1885) and was made a separate...
9) mover and shaker. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. movers and shakers One who wields power and influence in a sphere of activity: the importance of hanging out with the movers and shakers of the...
10) Activity. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The sphere of activity, the whole field through which the influence of an object or person extends. 1...
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