satellite state

She was not simply trying to turn Scotland into a satellite state.

Had the Republicans won the war, this effort would have turned Spain into a satellite state.

Kilamuva might offer for Deyen to be a satellite state.

Mongolia remained independent but became a Soviet satellite state.

A 'satellite state' is a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

Syria maintains about 30,000 soldiers in neighboring Lebanon, which it treats as a satellite state.

The country was a Soviet satellite state.

It was a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc.

Being a sovereign and nominally independent country, it has been described for the years 1924-1990 as a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

There were also plans to make the American West Coast a semi-autonomous satellite state.

The Soviet Union dissolves and so does its former satellite state Yugoslavia.

At the same time, East Germany was a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

The country's geographic location was shifted to the west and Poland existed as a Soviet satellite state.

So Hungary gradually became a communist satellite state of the Soviet Union.

Lebanon, a tiny nation of barely 4.5 million people, is effectively a satellite state to its bigger and more militarized neighbor, Syria.

She later fled to a Soviet satellite state and from there to the United States where she lives to this day.

In foreign affairs he steered a course that converted Austria virtually into an Italian satellite state.

Let's not confuse flag wavers with the secret police of a satellite state.' '

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

It had been imposed by a foreign invading army and destroyed centuries of tradition, making Switzerland nothing more than a French satellite state.

Poland became a de facto single-party state, and a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

Syria still treats much smaller neighbor as a satellite state and keeps some 30,000 soldiers and an unknown number of intelligence agents based here.

After this important visit, the United States began to feel that Afghanistan was safe from ever becoming a Soviet satellite state.

During this period the Soviets were beginning to feel that the United States was turning Afghanistan into a satellite state.

For modern forms of state subordination, see puppet state, satellite state and client state.