Meanings of respective spheres in English

They each act upon their several responsibilities in their respective spheres.

They agreed to a delimitation of their respective spheres of influence in East Africa.

Their respective spheres of authority were too loosely defined.

The consuls divided their respective spheres of action.

The difficulty lies, as it always does, on the border lines between the respective spheres of influence.

We never could govern them in their respective spheres, unless the laws were made stringent in their effect.

The whole continent is parcelled out among different nations, who have assumed the task of civilizing their respective spheres.

It would be difficult to make any comparison between her and Rosa Bonheur, their respective spheres of art being so different.

These were not fixed to their respective spheres as the stars were, but moved upon their spheres in small circles called epicycles.

Within their respective spheres of competence, the Community and the Member States shall co-operate with third countries and with the competent international organizations.

Though operating in different spheres, both are, in their respective spheres, developing and applying to practical life the one and the same Divine Idea.

Both the creative writer and the typist, in their respective spheres, are merely finding outlets for their powers in the direction of least resistance.

We are not properly informed as to the position which this supreme command occupied towards the special commands hitherto omnipotent in their respective spheres.

ARTICLE 130y Within their respective spheres of competence, the Community and the Member States shall co-operate with third countries and with the competent international organizations.

[Note 1: The famous bull marking the respective spheres of discovery and colonisation for Spain and Portugal was given on May 4, 1493.