However, to be successful, they will have to overcome the turf battles that undermined them at the start.

The twist contest might have been a metaphor for the turf battles in the House.

I said they've got to win the first turf battles even if they're about the table napkins.

Management experts said such arrangements usually ran into problems because of turf battles and personality conflicts.

The old turf battles are, to some extent, over now.

"In the past you always heard about turf battles between agencies," he said.

Not all the proposals are likely to be adopted, and many have become caught up in political turf battles among various branches of city government.

It was beneficial to everyone to avoid bloody turf battles.

In what appears to be a further incentive for a corporate turf battle, the company's top four jobs are divided equally between the two companies.

But two and a half years after 9/11, bureaucratic turf battles over the nation's security are inexcusable.