The power companies have protected their turf very well and, I am sure, will continue to do so.

Despite lofty talk about the good of the union, each came ready to protect his turf.

We're all trying to draw in the wagons and protect our turf.

"Each pack begins to protect their own turf," he added.

It is an argument put forward by bureaucrats protecting their turf.

And that, in turn, seems to have created a kind of arms race as the dealers protect their increasingly lucrative turf.

"I have to do everything that I can to protect our turf," he said.

He is caught between the market forces that are pushing change and the desire to protect his own turf.

The rich today, they're too much into protecting their turf.

Whether local or national in scope, gangs often turn to violence to protect their turf.