Sentence examples for fighting for turf from inspiring English sources

There is no fighting for turf, nor have the police ever tried to shoo him away.

No one achieves Drew's level of power on Wall Street without fighting for turf, and Drew knew how to protect her territory.

A senior Defense Department official familiar with the secretary's thinking on intelligence matters said this week that Mr. Rumsfeld was "not fighting for turf for turf's sake".

He said the government believes that recent arrests and seizures have created a power vacuum and that lower-level groups are fighting for turf.

"Bob has decided that he cares more about fighting terrorists than about fighting for turf," a senior Justice Department official said.

Coalition forces, with the help of locally recruited militias, are still hunting for elusive remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the eastern part of the country, along the porous border with Pakistan.Rival local commanders around the country have also been fighting for turf.

The atmosphere can be dark and intense, rendered all the more so by people fighting for their turf".

It is a major entry and distribution point for Colombian cocaine, and for much of last year two rival cartels were fighting for the turf.

"Three-time offenders are killing four-time offenders," he says, because younger criminals are fighting for the turf of older ones, and for the respect of their peer group.Oakland's liberal politicians, at least as left-wing as their colleagues in Berkeley and San Francisco, do not know what to do about the problem or even, according to Mr Starr, how to talk about it.

"We were fighting more for turf than for the best interests" of the community.

Like labor unions infiltrated by the mob, Korean monks have lent themselves to gangland activity, shaking down businesses and fighting violently for turf, Buddhist clergymen acknowledge.