Examples of client state in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The country was then a client state of Nazi Germany, and Jews, including Herz’s family, were banned from attending the cinema. — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, "The Mordant Fables of Juraj Herz," 20 Apr. 2020 Russia, which views Damascus as a client state and warm water port for the Russian Navy, has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with weapons and Russian military forces. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Russia Is Field Testing Its New Armata Tank in Syria," 22 Apr. 2020 Over the ensuing decades, India became functionally a client state of the Soviet Union, and the U.S.’s support for Pakistan soured relations between Delhi and Washington. — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, "India as Counterweight to China in Asia," 5 Mar. 2020 In Judea, which had recently lost its full sovereignty and become a client state of Rome, the year was… who even knows? — Anne Thériault, Longreads, "Queens of Infamy: Mariamne I," 18 Dec. 2019 Most participants are traditional client states or regional allies of the Soviet Union and now Russia, and many have non-democratic or even dictatorial regimes. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Watch a Tank Get Some Serious Air During Russia's Army Olympics," 8 Aug. 2019 Jordan, a longtime client state of the U.S., can do little to counter that pressure. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, "U.S. punishes Syria with sanctions — but allies like Jordan also pay a price," 10 Sep. 2019 That requires power projection, so China has turned a dozen countries around the world into client states through debt peonage, collateralizing abusive loans with concessions for military bases and deep-water ports. — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, "The Trade War Is Smart Geopolitics," 5 Sep. 2019 First introduced in 1963, the 122-millimeter D-30 towed howitzer equipped the Soviet Army, the Eastern European armies of the Warsaw Pact, and Soviet client states abroad. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "U.S. Troops Are Training to Operate Cold War-Era Howitzers," 24 Jan. 2019

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