buffer state

Half a dozen little buffer states would have kept them at peace.

Presumably, it will then be a buffer state against Iran.

The British wanted the Indians to form a buffer state between the two countries.

Their marriage served as an alliance between the Ottomans and this buffer state.

Indirect rule was also established on protectorates and buffer states.

They had therefore cultivated Tibet as a buffer state.

She had lost the buffer states which protected her and she was vulnerable to land attack.

The main American objection at the time was that the buffer state denied its inhabitants the right of self-determination.

Their plan for an Indian buffer state failed.

They were a sort of buffer state.

Armenia was now no longer a buffer state.

Located at the periphery of the empire, Paraguay served as a buffer state.

They were desperate to maintain the Spanish Netherlands as a buffer state.

The tributary buffer states of the Caucasus had not been able to prevent that invasion.

"Not a sovereign state, a buffer state," replied the speaker.

I took my seat beside him, while the lady, a useful buffer state, was squeezed in between the two men of wrath at the back.

British interests in India compelled them to create the buffer state of Afghanistan.

In 1814, after the fall of the empire, a buffer state was created, with Vesoul as capital.

"It provides a buffer state between them, stabilizes these blocks and prevents intensification of use."

"Maybe if we hadn't been a buffer state we'd have escaped this security mind-set," he concluded.

It was on the eastern land mass that her party would make their secret landing, in one of those small buffer states between the great powers.

They also saw a Turkish Republic as a buffer state or possibly a communist ally.

Possibly he would set up a small Polish buffer state between Germany and Russia.

The missing Ukrainian buffer state would have come into being as the Commonwealth's eastern pillar.

Until the end of the century, the principality served as a buffer state against Cuman attacks.