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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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Additionally, borrowers with loans subject to the settlement's provisions should see their collection efforts halted.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Meta had agreed to a $25 million settlement with Trump over his ban from the platform after Jan. 7, 2021.—
Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 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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That same mandate could also reopen the door to millions of acres of federal land that became off limits to hunters during the Biden Administration.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
31 Jan. 2025
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As vaccine hesitancy spreads, as states allow for religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, and as vaccine mandates are removed, more unvaccinated children have become susceptible.—
Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief,
New York Daily News,
29 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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These changes allow the growers to improve farm efficiency, soil health and access to premium markets, leading to environmental and economic progress.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Jan. 2025
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Since the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted in 1868, the answer to that question has been cemented in the American psyche: anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
23 Jan. 2025
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During the third year of his sentence, he's placed in a cell with Valentin (Diego Luna), a revolutionary who is vital to the fight against Argentina's military dictatorship.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
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 2 Feb. 2025.
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