Sentences with phrase «buffer state»

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.

These events vindicated the long tradition of Crown - Aboriginal alliances, from the Covenant Chain to the Royal Proclamation to the plan to establish an Aboriginal buffer state.

But China's national interest lies in keeping North Korea as a buffer state to prevent the US from staging troops on its borders.

Instead, Beijing prefers to maintain the North as a buffer state, a diplomatic bargaining chip and a tool for indirectly threatening the United States.

The word «Ukraine» means borderland, and for centuries Kiev was the capital of a buffer state on the edge of the Russian and Soviet empires.

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

We see Palestine the buffer state over which trample the armies of Egypt and Assyria as each of these powerful neighbors strives to intimidate it or to use it for her own ends.

Most of these buffer states are of little interest to non-specialists, but two of those middling powers in particular demand our attention for what they suggest about the early history of both Christianity and Islam.

His nation lay as a buffer state between the great rival empires of Egypt and Babylonia and was constantly under pressure to side with one or the other of these great powers.

These motives aligned with a geopolitical strategy that had been intermittently pursued by Great Britain since the American Revolution — the plan to create an Aboriginal «buffer state.»

Britain ultimately abandoned its support of a «buffer state» to protect title to lands threatened by American expansion.