client state
Example Sentences
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Moscow claimed Iran as a strategic ally and Syria as a client state, which hosted Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean.
The city of my birth, Minsk — the capital of Belarus, then a Soviet republic and now a Russian client state — was the place where Lee Harvey Oswald got so bored that he packed up and headed back to the U.S., and into into the history books.
From Salon
The ancient city was the capital of an Arab client state of the Roman Empire that briefly rebelled and carved out its own kingdom in the third century, led by Queen Zenobia.
From Seattle Times
Poland borders Ukraine and Russia’s client state Belarus in the east and the Russia territory of Kaliningrad in the north.
From New York Times
As prime minister, Mr. Strougal was often the country’s public face in international affairs and made overtures for greater Cold War-era trade with the West even as Czechoslovakia’s regime remained a classic Soviet client state.
From Washington Post
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