The three spheres are overlapping and interrelated, but each sphere possesses a distinctive focus.

Others, such as Steven Kale, compromise by declaring that the public and private spheres overlapped in the salons.

These days the planetary spheres of influence overlapped in the Belt with uneasy tolerance.

The cafes occupied the zone where these spheres overlapped.

Cultural "spheres of influence" may also overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures.

The geographical separation between the two countries meant that their spheres of influence rarely overlapped.

As more material is deposited, the spheres grow larger and eventually overlap with those that are nearby.

Their spheres of influence overlapped in the Central African Federation.

As such, his sphere of influence overlapped with that of the Tonsured Maize God.

As city-states began to grow, their spheres of influence overlapped, creating arguments between other city-states, especially over land and canals.