sphere of interests

The Americans (and their sphere of interests) were ordered to boycott the Olympic games in Moscow.

The same group of fungi fell into the sphere of interests of de Bary.

This has usually been done with the blunt explanation that Africa falls outside of America's vital sphere of interests.

His larger sphere of interests, his somewhat broader concept of normalcy, was useful when certain patrons came into the office.

The law asserted Washington's right to help Taiwan defend itself and declared Taiwan to be within the American sphere of interests.

With the years his devotion to ancient things increased; so that history, genealogy, and the study of colonial architecture, furniture, and craftsmanship at length crowded everything else from his sphere of interests.

The public portion contained an agreement with a ten year term whereby the parties would respect each other's natural spheres of interests, while Germany, Italy and Japan would affirm their recognition of existing Soviet borders.

In the following battles with the rest of the Second Polish Republic's army the Soviet Union occupied the territories roughly corresponding to its sphere of interests, as defined in the secret additional protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

By mutual consent of the Polish and Ukrainian Prometheans (if occasionally less than whole-heartedly on the Petlurists' part), largely Ukrainian-populated areas of southeastern Poland were treated as an internal Polish sphere of interests and were off-bounds to Ukrainian Promethean organizing.