Sentence examples similar to fought spoils from inspiring English sources

If there is one blessing to this impoverishment, it may be that Colombia's long internal war has largely been fought over spoils in other places, allowing teachers here to toil uninterrupted at reviving Palenquero since classes were introduced in the late 1980s.

They fought to spoil the party for a little more than a half, enough to give the event some drama.

Factions began using Tahrir to fight over spoils that didn't even exist.

And it still doesn't explain why he was such a fight-spoiling dodobrain from the beginning.

Since the Industrial Revolution, two groups have fought for the spoils of their joint production.

On the throne for 61 years, the king is a father figure who has given Thais a sense of continuity and stability as politicians, bureaucrats and soldiers have fought over the spoils of power.

The dogs should already know each other and get along or else they may fight and spoil the occasion.

Google has spent millions of dollars being forced into the deal they now have with publishers and it's frankly ludicrous to expect them to share those hard-fought spoils with their biggest competitors.

But by the time he fought Sharif Bogere, the spoiling had reached a new level, probably abetted by Bogere not being Rios in the action department.

Only in recent years, aided by the armies of neighboring countries, have they fought mercilessly for its spoils: diamonds, gold, timber and coltan, a mineral used in cellphones.

The risk of conflict to fight for the spoils must be considered high.