Sentence examples for carve up between from inspiring English sources

The BBC reporter (I didn't catch her name) asked McGuinness about the comment made by Alistair McDonnell from the SDLP who said the executive would be a "carve up" between Sinn Féin and the DUP with the other parties expected to be "nodding donkeys".

International routes will be carved up between two or three mega-alliances.

All disappeared; either swallowed by multinational empires or carved up between rival nation-states.

But the district is carved up between nine property owners, with differing approaches to leasing their sites.

Brent East is due to be carved up between Paul Boateng's Brent South and Glenda Jackson's Hampstead and Highgate.

The IFTU's leadership is carved up between the pro-government Communist party, Allawi's Iraqi National Accord, and their satellites.

For those dispirited by the way so many big jump races are nowadays carved up between the same few stables, here was a look back to the future.

Whereas a few years ago Mexico's dope trade was carved up between five big outfits, those territorial distinctions have blurred.

The lands that now constitute Ukraine had previously been carved up between Russia, Poland, the Austro-Hungary empire, the Duchy of Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate.

In the late 19th century, the world was dominated by imperial European great powers, happily carving up between them any available territories in Africa and Asia.

What is left – roughly 84% of the gross – then is carved up between the band and their promoter (who puts on and underwrites the show).