domino theory

Nobody yet knew what effect the domino theory would have.

He disagreed with the domino theory and said that the war had been a huge mistake.

I believed in the domino theory for a lot longer than Ron."

A couple of decades ago there was a great deal of talk about the domino theory.

The domino theory is back, this time in reverse.

Asia's difficulties suggest that maybe there was something to the old domino theory after all.

This from the people who snickered about the domino theory in Vietnam.

Who knew, until 21 plants shut down in three minutes, that they worked on the discredited domino theory?

The domino theory, at least in Eastern Europe, held true.

This may take the form of a domino theory or contagion formulation.

This new domino theory has at least partial validity.

The domino theory belongs to economics today, not politics.

The possibility that a communist state can influence or cause other countries to adopt the same system of government is called the domino theory.

The idea is sometimes referred to as a new domino theory, with tyrannies collapsing on top of one another.

In its original formulation, the domino theory was invoked fearfully.

I tend to believe that we should develop a kind of democratic, positive domino theory and stabilise one country after another.

And later, adding that the domino theory was wrong but not irrational, he said: "I put myself in your place.

Those who scoff at the idea of a democratic domino theory in the Arab world don't know what they're talking about.

The domino theory existed from the 1950s to the 1980s.

But in today's unipolar world, a so-called positive or reverse domino theory has emerged.

THE domino theory is alive and worried about in Washington.

Communism and the domino theory alike have been relegated to history's junk heap.

"It was the domino theory," his wife added.

To extend the domino theory: for the entertainment to succeed, the pieces have to be correctly aligned.

Today, the domino theory is so ingrained in American foreign policy that it is often the subject of sophisticated analysis.