6 sentences with 'buffer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word buffer and other words derived from it.
• « Both war and trade went back and forth between Rome and Persia, with the Euphrates River as the usual border between the two empires and the nearby kingdom of Armenia as a buffer state dominated by one power and then the other over time. »
• « Its king, Vittorio Emanuele II, was of the former royal house of Savoy, and the kingdom retained independence after the Napoleonic period because it served as a useful buffer state between the French and Austrian spheres of influence. »
• « As part of the pre-war agreement with Germany, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east as German forces did from the west, and the Soviets occupied eastern Poland in the name of territorial expansion for its own sake and to provide a buffer from Germany and the west. »
• « George II, realising the strategic advantage of a British colony as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, granted the charter to Oglethorpe and twenty like-minded landowners in 1732. »
• « To increase the non-Indian population in Texas and provide a buffer zone between their hostile tribes and the rest of Mexico, Spain began recruiting empresarios. An empresario was someone who brought settlers to the region in exchange for generous land grants. »