Sentence examples for a spoils from inspiring English sources

But his clinging to power and failure even to indicate a successor have reduced Ugandan politics to a spoils system.

The style of government was a spoils system, underpinned by terror of a vicious network of spies and secret police.

Isis is operating what it says is a "spoils of war" code under Sharia law by which fighters take the houses and assets of opponents who have fled.

People in Congress were caught up in a spoils system in which money was taken from those who worked and given to those with connections.

Money for many of the local construction projects still under way is divided up by a spoils system controlled by neighborhood politicians and tribal chiefs.

A spoils system evolved, and everyone took their cuts.Blowing the golden whistleBy the end of the 1990s, it was clear to some insiders that few people in football cared about the quality or integrity of the game.

The exchanges provided a spoils-market, not a stockmarket".China's stockmarkets are not really about money (that comes from the banks)," wrote Fraser Howie and Carl Walter in 2011 in "Red Capitalism", a book about China's financial markets; "they are about power".Mr Guo is trying both to smarten up the firms on the market and educate the investors who buy their shares.

"It does seem like a spoiling tactic," he added.

It wants to ensure a good neighbor and avoid a spoiling and destabilizing presence in Northeast Asia.

The speaker expressed frustration with the president's position, and suggested that lawmakers prepare for a spoiled holiday season.

Didn't that mark me as a spoil sport?