1 | The territory was carved up by the occupying powers. | |
2 | They divvied up the winnings between them. | |
3 | Industry profits are also too "lumpy" for the market to be readily carved up. | |
4 | The victors mercilessly carved up the defeated country, each taking an equal share. | |
5 | Its earlier history of being partitioned by neighboring European powers had bred its own defiant form of nationalist resistance. |