Translation of "Interessensphäre" in English

At any rate, Germany had not occupied any territory that was within the Russian sphere of influence.

The children with the condition tend to have a narrow range of interest.

The old German-Russian agreement assigned Finland to the Russian sphere of influence.

Its entire sphere of interest is therefore its struggle to possess such a being.

The archbishop - the patriarch of Aquileia - perceived this as an encroachment on his sphere of influence.

Russia sees its sphere of interests and influence in Ukraine.

With this move the country would put itself definitively in Putlin's sphere of interest.

And the Earth's sphere of interest then became, to a corresponding degree, light.

Certain countries are aiming to draw African countries into their sphere of influence.

In a secret supplementary protocol Estonia and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence and Lithuania to the German sphere.

According to an oral agreement, the former Austrian territories were to fall within the German sphere of influence.

What this brings out, of course, is that even though primary responsibility rests, as Mrs Banotti said, with the Member States, the Union too has its sphere of legitimate concern in this field and must be active here.

For all Ukraine's European orientation, we must not forget or disregard that country's deep-seated roots in Russia's sphere of influence, and we must take that into consideration.

These are the three Baltic states which were brought into the Soviet sphere of interest when Hitler and Stalin divided up Europe at the end of the 1930s through the notorious pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop, the foreign ministers from Moscow and Berlin.

Nor do we believe that the instruments should be used for extending the EU’s sphere of interest to areas that cannot be described as its neighbourhood.

However, Estonia is not a Russian satellite state within Russia's sphere of interest, but a free and independent nation.

In the field of international relations, a sphere of influence (SOI) is a spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity, accommodating to the interests of powers outside the borders of the state that controls it.

This drew the Rear County of Sponheim into the Palatine sphere of influence, involving it in war and the possession of the Palatinate.

During the war, the Bolsheviks struggled for survival, and Vladimir Lenin recognised the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

But, by using its energy resources and recovered confidence to fuel instability and discord, it is seeking to expand its sphere of interest – an outcome that can be averted only by a unanimous and determined EU response.

The Japanese at first tried to appease the Russians, declaring Manchuria beyond its sphere of interest in exchange for a similar guarantee from Russia about Korea.

The confidence of consumers to engage in cross-border transactions and to extend their sphere of interest beyond the borders of their Member States will be strengthened.

The demise of Baltic independence was ushered in by the ill-famed Non-Aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin (23 August 1939).

There is no such comparable investment in Europe in or by the European Community because of the phoney arbitrary distinction which is maintained by too many people and too many interests, between military (what is called military) and non-military production. It has been contended by some that military production must remain solely and exclusively in the control of Member States.

The French minister to China, Frédéric Bourée, was so alarmed by the prospect of war with China that in November and December he negotiated a deal with the Chinese statesman Li Hongzhang to divide Tonkin into French and Chinese spheres of influence.

Spain had regarded the Caroline Islands as part of the Spanish East Indies ever since the Age of Discovery, when the Treaty of Zaragoza had marked it out as part of the Spanish sphere of influence.