The maintenance of a weak buffer State, as a glacis against any attacks from the South, seemed far more advantageous, especially if its fortified positions were garrisoned with Dutch forces.
It suited Austria and Russia, since it created a strong buffer State acting as a bulwark against French annexionism in the North.
This was not a mere inert buffer State: it might become the strong central nation which European balance of power so urgently required, since the Renaissance, to relieve the tension of Franco-British or Franco-Prussian relations.
But you don't mean to tell me, Undy, that the consciousness of such crimes as those which M'Buffer has committed must not make a man wretched in this world, and probably in the next also?
Why, M'Buffer has been at it now for thirteen years.
He is the buffer between the poor and all their ills, especially poison: he must dig a well.
It is curious to notice how the "buffer State" policy has gone down in the world.
Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven.
And the little buffer state began to be very wise and politic and energetic.
Each turned greedy eyes on the littlebuffer state.
By the end of the 18th century, Spanish authorities thought of the northern colonies (provincias internas) primarily as missionary fields and military buffer zones.
Furthermore, Taos and Abiquiu were buffer settlements on the frontier, where Indian raids as well as trade occurred.
She was, in fact, precisely the sort of girl that George felt he could love with all the stored-up devotion of an old buffer of twenty-seven who had squandered none of his rich nature in foolish flirtations.
But I saw in the paper yesterday that the poor old buffer had died suddenly, so I suppose it would be difficult to get hold of her for the time being.
Tony had weighed his father and found him wanting; and it was clear that he had tried to insert his small personality as a bufferbetween his father and mother.
A man receives the shocks of life on the buffer of his vanity.
I now planned a sort of movable buffer by which the force of the water-spout could be diminished or even turned aside altogether.
Opening the sluice slowly, and fixing the buffer so as to turn at least three-quarters of the furious water-spout aside, I had the extreme satisfaction of seeing the saw begin to rip up a large log.
I made a first-rate booby-trap, though, one day for an old yellowbuffer who came in to see you.
Osroene in Abgarus' days formed a sort of buffer state between the Parthian and Roman Empires; and a little later it experienced the usual fate of buffer states, and was absorbed by the Empire of Rome.
It was a passage of strategic importance, however, in the days when Rome held Nisibis as her frontier post on the Persian border; and when Armenia was a buffer state of most uncertain loyalty, between the Roman and Sassanid Persian empires.
This man is at least as powerful as his neighbour; and indeed Obeid-Allah of Shamsdin, grandfather of the present Sheikh, had thoughts of carving out for himself a separate principality, a buffer between Turkey and Persia.
The capital stock is a buffer interposed between the bank's creditors and losses which the bank may suffer.
This reserve has acted as a buffer to the shock of reaction, and has softened the impact through a speedy restoration of confidence in the excellence of the country's assets and in the real solvency of business.
It is the unfortunate destiny of Buffer to damage a cause by espousing it.
Buffer says he knows a man who married a bathing-woman, and bolted.
The rest of the company have meekly yielded to the proposition that the principle is the same, until Buffer says it is; when instantly a general murmur arises that the principle is not the same.
Buffer says, 'So did I'; but can find nobody to care whether he did or not.
Oh, you're taking it entirely too seriously," put in Lottie, as she used a buffer on her already pink and polished nails.
Put away your nail-buffer and hang on," advised Bess.
She's done it out of revenge for his being shut up, and I wish Buffer had caught her at it, so I do.
There was a sudden jerk that almost threw the Hawk from his feet, the pound and slam of buffer plates, and the vicious shriek of the "air.
In fact he told me in so many words that you disliked me and didn't trust my understanding and that it would be necessary for him to act as a buffer between you and me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
