Rudd used that term as shorthand for an effort by China to exclude outside powers—like the United States—from the Asia-Pacific region.

陆克文所使用的术语作为一个由中国努力排除类似美国外部势力速记来自亚太地区。

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She urged the Tehran government to give a definitive answer to an offer by major powers to further process Iranian enriched uranium outside that country to resupply a Tehran reactor, running low on fuel, that produces isotopes for medical purposes.

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The principle of proportion would require that American intervention be no greater than the intervention by other outside powers in the local conflict.

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Meanwhile, the chess pieces of politics, power, and warfare are all moved about by powers outside of the scope of any one man, or general, or king.

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He also said that outside powers, not Iran, have been feeding the conflict inside Syria by shipping in arms.

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