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Recent Examples of client state
The hunter education marketplace remains lucrative because once a vendor acquires a client state agency, their customers come along essentially for free.
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Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2024
In other words, Britain is a client state, albeit a senior one, with certain privileges.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
By turning Abiy’s Ethiopia into a client state, however, the UAE has helped feed the prime minister’s worst instincts.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow provided both internal and external security assistance to their client states, and few if any countries maintained security relationships with both superpowers.
—Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2024
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Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2024
In other words, Britain is a client state, albeit a senior one, with certain privileges.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
By turning Abiy’s Ethiopia into a client state, however, the UAE has helped feed the prime minister’s worst instincts.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow provided both internal and external security assistance to their client states, and few if any countries maintained security relationships with both superpowers.
—Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for client state
Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
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In 2023, Dominion Voting Systems received a historic $787 million settlement with Fox News over allegations the broadcaster defamed the election equipment company.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a small settlement outside Villamar, Bolivia, a clothes maker pauses for a portrait.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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The new warship has a displacement of 5,000 tons and is named after a city in Henan province.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Researchers expect the new species to live in neighboring provinces of Vietnam and Laos.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Considered a Trump loyalist, Noem has been praised by conservatives for her record as governor, which includes vocally opposing mask mandates and other COVID-era measures.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Witkoff also asked Netanyahu to send in more senior officials to negotiate, with a mandate to close the deal, the source said.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Such situations can become even more complicated when money is involved, as financial dependencies may create additional expectations or obligations.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Traditional monitoring tools, designed for simpler architectures, often struggle with these intricate dependency chains.—
Karthik Sj,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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And the ability to criticize public officials without fear of retribution is what differentiates a democracy from a dictatorship.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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And the stakes are high, not just for world trade but also for representative government in major democracies.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Jan. 2025
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That would allow those troops to be used in civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil.—
Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The order directs federal agencies to stop issuing citizenship documents such as passports to children born on U.S. soil to parents in the country illegally or under temporary visas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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And ultimately, South Koreans may decide the time has come to revise the constitution, written in 1948 under U.S. military occupation and last revised in 1987 under military dictatorship.—
John Delury,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Jan. 2025
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Molina, a gay hairdresser convicted of public indecency during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, has been sent to the political wing of a prison and put in the same cell as Valentin Arregui (a solid, if unremarkable Diego Luna), an intense and serious-minded Marxist revolutionary.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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