How to Use client state in a Sentence

client state

noun
Definition of client statenext
Synonyms for client statenext
  • Jordan, a longtime client state of the U.S., can do little to counter that pressure.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • 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, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Long-term, Moscow wants a reliable client state in the Middle East.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Afghan client state marked the limits of American hard power.
    — Jeremy Page, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That policy, which may have pleased America’s client states in the region at the time, was a product of post-Cold War hubris on our part.
    — Andrew Exum, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Belarus is clearly complicit in the attack on Ukraine, and a model client state for the Russians.
    — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Since 2020, Belarus has been firmly in the client state category.
    — Jason Fields, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Yemen is a client state of its rich neighbor Saudi Arabia, but is locked in an internal war with Houthi rebels supported by Iran.
    — Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Russia may decide to help its client state Syria more as the result of this airstrike, frustrating further U.S. action.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • That planted the seeds of the collapse of the Soviet Union by showing its client states that their sponsor was unable to help them militarily.
    — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • 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, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The danger of Qatar evolving into a full-fledged Iranian client state is vastly overblown; this is not something that the Al-Thani family would find palatable.
    — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Cuba was a client state of the Soviet Union and was under diplomatic and economic embargo by the United States for decades.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But signs of what the future may hold in the CAR, one of the organization’s first client states and its laboratory on the continent, are beginning to emerge in Bangui.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This was an audacious move, particularly for a client state.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 11 June 2018
  • All of the clients stated that the two helped them apply for immigration visas, residency or citizenship.
    — Craig Sailor, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2018
  • As China has risen in global influence, Russia’s leadership have resented the prospect of becoming a client state of Beijing.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Honduras is a longtime American client state, the recipient of billions of dollars in foreign aid and the home base of a strategically critical U.S. military force.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Israel, a close ally and client state of the U.S., has been maneuvering to head off a new agreement altogether, or at least to pressure the Biden administration not to soften its negotiating positions to get the deal across the finish line.
    — David Faris, The Week, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Some American officials worry that China’s goal in the Solomons is to create a client state, securing deepwater ports and satellite communication sites.
    — Damien Cave Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • 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, 8 Aug. 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, 5 Sep. 2019
  • In seeking to corral most of the population into a biometric database, the U.S. government was doing nothing less than building a system of mass surveillance for an unreliable client state with a rickety (at best) criminal justice system.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In turn, client states have used Pegasus against not only opposition groups, journalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) but also geopolitical rivals.
    — Ronald J. Deibert, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2022

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