Turf should be given up for the benefit of cooperation.

The whistle went, the Fijians embraced and GB hit the turf, thoroughly beaten.

It's hard to study a bluefin on its turf, the entire Pacific realm.

And the fish have grazed the algae, so the turf of algae is a little lower.

This dictates a radical change in mindset a change from bureaucratic turf protection to teamwork, and from narrow departmentalization to interdepartmental (joint) programming.

He says, If we start shooting around there, in the other gang's territory nobody, and, I mean, you dig it, nobody, going to step on their turf.

You actually see a great potential, but you see a lot of people who are sort of defending their turf, and may actually be very resistant, when one tries to introduce ideas.

Not surprisingly, at least some people at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have reacted negatively this is stepping onto their turf, after all. And the lobbyists are, naturally, out in full force.

Current executive directors typically do not have the authority to make commitments on their countries behalf, so their effort is often diverted to minutiae. And, in an attempt to preserve its turf, the Board constantly attempts to keep the IMFC from discussing anything of substance.

SINGAPORE The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few count on it to deliver results anymore. Now, after decades of turf wars and self marginalization, international organizations must rally around an increasingly pressing global priority sustainable urbanization.

Teamwork has repeatedly fallen hostage to turf wars and political bickering. Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.

Democrats have even managed to beat the Republicans on their own turf. Thanks to the profligacy of the current Bush administration (and the prudence of the Clinton administration), average Federal spending as a proportion of GDP under Republican presidents now exceeds that under Democrats during the measured period.

Finally, there s the usual Indian problem sports administrative bodies and government departments are ridden with patronage and petty bossism, with officials more interested in protecting their turf (and enjoying paid vacations to sporting events) than in promoting athletes. With all these factors, failure in the Olympics, it is suggested, is encoded in our national DNA.

The internecine rivalries that began in earnest last November between fighters from Zawiya and Warshefana, and among Tripoli s various factions, will be difficult to defuse, as the thowar (revolutionaries) have refused repeated calls by the NTC to disarm. Tripoli is in danger of becoming like Baghdad circa 2005, with different groups controlling turf and instituting a clientelist neighborhood political economy.

India was historically strong at field hockey, winning almost all of the gold medals between 1928 and 1968, but, since the Games switched from grass to expensive synthetic turf, the Indians have won just one field hockey medal. Some of the sports at which Britain has done particularly well, like cycling and rowing, are most highly influenced by income and host effects.

The CIO wouldn t have policymaking authority per se , but he or she should sit high in the government ideally with little bureaucratic encumbrance. The CIO would not have a fiefdom and would not compete for power or turf with other senior officials, but would simply remind the president or other people of the role of information every time it was appropriate.

Indeed, although ministries, seeking to protect their own turf, undoubtedly impede one another on major issues, they have been collaborating wholeheartedly in China s effort to reshape the world economic order. Former Deputy Finance Minister Jin Liqun, whom the government has nominated to be the first president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, has indicated that the AIIB s successful launch was driven by such ministerial cooperation.

Finally, the insurgency as a whole remains nihilistic, focused on destroying the new Iraqi government and the emerging economic and political system rather than articulating a coherent alternative. In many ways, the Iraq insurgency is analogous to urban street gangs each component shares behavioral and organizational similarities but pursues its own aggrandizement and undertakes autonomous operations within its turf rather than pursuing a master plan or strategy.