Protection of bureaucratic turf?

Mr. Liu has been widely depicted as a Machiavellian figure willing to wreck normalization negotiations in order to protect the bureaucratic turf of the Patriotic Association.

The Center protected its bureaucratic turf.

He wants, and insists on, respect, particularly where his bureaucratic turf is concerned.

This new breed of leadership must recruit managers skilled in negotiation, contract management and risk analysis who will tackle problems unconventionally and focus on results rather than on defending bureaucratic turf.

Despite the agency's sorry record, its political appointees have loudly defended their bureaucratic turf; to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, nothing focuses a bureaucracy like the prospect of elimination.

Privatization of some $5 billion worth of state enterprises, for example, was put on indefinite hold because both jobs and bureaucratic turf were threatened.

He suggests that city officials who have raised questions about the workability of his recommendations are protecting their bureaucratic turf.

Those who do object will be zapped as protectors of bureaucratic turf or, as the attorney general will charge as November elections draw near, aiders of terrorism.

It is also jealous of its bureaucratic turf, especially in computer-crime, where it formally shares jurisdiction with its traditional rival, the johnny-come-lately FBI.