turf war

How To Use turf war In A Sentence

• The report tells midwives and doctors to end the culture clashes and turf wars that put safety at risk. Times, Sunday Times
• Now the gangs are back fighting turf wars and engaging in gun battles with police. Times, Sunday Times
• The estate is at the centre of a bitter turf war between rival drug gangs.
• Turf wars, the occasional hardhead who goes for the assault rifle when the raid team shows, bitterness over price hikes or debts owed. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
• a turf war erupted between street gangs
• Although for much of the time the various teams within the city operated in tandem, respecting each other's territory, there were sporadic turf wars characterised by tit-for-tat shootings, with kneecappings a popular form of warning or 'frightener'. Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
• It's not gang turf warfare over drugs, prostitution, extortion or anything like that.
• This intricate web of departments and agencies, massively staffed, is technically controlled by the president, but often seems to control him, whether through Cabinet brawls of clashing egos or interagency turf wars -- a specialty in the Bush years, particularly during the first-term prelude to Iraq, when ideological differences pitted Donald Rumsfeld and his hawks at Defense against Colin Powell's diplomats at State, with Condoleezza Rice, in her small redoubt at the National Security Council, squeezed out altogether. Powell's Books: Overview
• the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors
• The estate is at the centre of a bitter turf war between rival drug gangs.