Sentence examples for over the spoils from inspiring English sources

The country, a former French colony, is one of West Africa's longest festering sores, a holdover from a recent era when autocrats ruled the region and civil wars raged over the spoils of diamonds, gold and other riches.

Squabbling over the spoils of defeat.

Earlier squabbles over the spoils looked ominous for the plan.

They tussle over the spoils of one-party rule.

A lot of blood is spilled over the spoils of political power.

Even during his lifetime, his children were quarreling over the spoils.

Though supposedly allies, Rwandan and Ugandan troops have occasionally clashed over the spoils.

And taking their cue from Ralph Fiennes's somewhat over-the-top spoiled-brat Richard, they began to laugh in the first scenes and didn't quit until near the end.

Osaka didn't want to be given anything and wept over the spoil.

The flow over the spoil heap belonged to supercritical flow and the critical inflow rate controlling the transformation from transitional flow to turbulent flow for rill flow was between 0.33 × 10− 3 and 0.417 × 10− 3 m3/s.

United only by hatred of Moi, it has no ideology, no concrete policies and could crumble over the division of spoils.