Sentences with phrase «buffer states between»

There were a number of small independent buffer States between Rome and Parthia and several of them were of Arab tribes.

Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay are called buffer states between Brazil and Argentina.

This meant that Israel was a buffer state between them, whose possession was eagerly sought by strong neighbors as a step toward larger prey.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Not exact matches

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

They are, as the Supreme Court has recognized, «critical buffers between the individual and the power of the State» and are, in Fr.

Separately, construction also will soon begin along Roosevelt Road, between State Street and Columbus Drive, to widen sidewalks and create a buffer of trees between bike and car lanes, integrating the nearby CTA station with Grant Park, Soldier Field, Northerly Island and the Museum Campus.

Between them is a buffer zone of 10 mixed states (and the Federal Capital Territory) known collectively as the Middle Belt.

Grazing among grains yields ecological, economic benefits Grafting research could rescue state's watermelon crop Sickness and health between men and women Conservation buffers please the eye, protect the landscape, says WSU researcher.

You state in the response to # 10, ``... There is no surprise that the CO2 in the atmosphere winds up partially in the oceans, nor that the amount of CO2 going into or coming out of the oceans varies in time and space — that's simple equilibrium chemistry between the liquid (that is, dissolved) and gaseous phases...» Are the buffers a part of simple equilibrium chemistry, and where can I go to read up on this and how it pertains to the Models.

This may involve many buffer companies «selling» the goods between themselves and charging VAT on each sale until they are dispatched to another member state in a zero rated transfer.