But he was singing folk songs, in which references to murder and death were set in a pastoral traditional sphere.

These were all clearly within the traditional sphere of influence of Macedonia.

Within the traditional sphere, the childbearing ability of women was explained as the means by which lineage ancestors were allowed to be reborn.

An Eastern European diplomat suggested that there was great reluctance to interfere in a traditional Russian sphere.

She also planned to change several things in the traditional domestic sphere.

However, it has played a more limited role in Arab politics, its other traditional sphere of interest.

Similar moves were made in the east in the traditional sphere of Athenian expansion.

It was a thin, but effective disguise: a self-conscious seat of power for an independent woman, in a woman's traditional sphere - the dining room.

We need only let Alerion's traditional sphere alone, and the rest of the galaxy is open to us.

More recently, senior French officials have complained that Germany is working to rebuild its traditional sphere of influence in Central Europe.