It's this return of former colonial powers to the Arab world to reclaim oil concessions in Libya, following the occupation of Iraq, that has led Gamal Abdel Nasser's former confidant Mohamed Heikal to talk recently of the threat of an effective new "Sykes-Picot agreement" – the carve-up between Britain and France after the first world war – and a redivision of spoils in the region. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A fringe benefit of their activity is to encourage political awareness in general to avoid a carve-up between Islamist parties and remnants of the former regime. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Ed Balls has, by dint of the usual carve-up, been selected for the new seat of Morley and Outwood following the abolition of his existing seat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, will emerging markets accept another Western carve-up, at a time when they are being invited to provide financial support for the eurozone? ❋ Unknown (2012)
Perhaps the biggest difficulty, particularly for trade buyers, would be how to structure a carve-up of this scale. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I have been encouraged by the UUP's efforts to build a genuine unionism for the people of Northern Ireland, something I regard as much more beneficial to unionism than the carve-up which the DUP has concluded with Sinn Fein. ❋ O'Neill (2009)
The Stoke manager was responding to Harry Redknapp's concerns about the timing of the league game against City, which has led to his Spurs counterpart and close friend expressing his misgivings about a potential carve-up of the result to secure European qualification. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the Turkish perspective, the large issues for Europe should not be the latest carve-up of the budgetary cake, or the palace power struggle between the European parliament and the member states, or even the necessary budgetary disciplines that Germany demands of its more rule-resistant partners and to which economically booming Turkey, unlike its economically wracked neighbour Greece, could sign up with barely a second's thought. ❋ Martin Kettle (2010)
The Labour party was formed at the beginning of the 20th century precisely because the political carve-up between the Tories and Liberals throughout the 19th century had ensured that the voices of the ordinary people had not been heard. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The potential carve-up is seen by board members as the largest sticking point when assessing the Nasdaq-ICE plan, according to people familiar with the situation. ❋ Jacob Bunge (2011)
Potential suitors, few of which are likely to want all of Smiths, will need to craft a viable carve-up plan. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Korea was divided in 1945, part of the postwar carve-up of territory between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As well as being a self-serving carve-up to avoid culling too many coalition MPs, it is a recipe for trouble. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The French insurance giant is back in talks with Australian asset manager AMP over a potential $12 billion buyout and carve-up of its majority-owned Asian business, AXA Asia Pacific Holdings. ❋ Hester Plumridge (2010)
As well as considering the impact of a complete break up of EMU, the ING economists also analysed the potential effects of a less dramatic carve-up of the eurozone where a "stage-managed" exit is arranged for Greece. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A recent arrival at the school, Sergei asked his father, who had made a pile out of the carve-up of the Soviet Union, to buy him a BB gun. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And not least, his carve-up of Eastern Europe with Stalin, so very reminiscent of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Until Labour lost power in Scotland, the public appointments carve-up was even more shameless north of the border. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We all know from our high school history that the League of Nations was the legal and diplomatic fig-leaf for an imperialist carve-up by Britain and France. ❋ Unknown (2009)
