Markets had already been carved up, now the only task was guard the borders.
So, which flicks have carved up the competition at the box office over the years?
After World War I, Britain and France carved up the Middle East between them.
The Spurs carved up the Thunder inside, making six of nine two-point attempts.
Finally, though it is easy to call for banks to be carved up, it would be hellishly difficult in practice.
It is no longer fanciful to envisage America's Dollars100 billion local phone market being carved up between two super-regional monopolies.
Crucially, the amount of technology each company puts into the disc makes a difference to how the royalties are carved up.
Some died, some carved up their fortunes, but more than half of the starting lineup just got trampled in the success race.
Nuclear power may struggle in Brazil, where the industry is being carved up and privatised so as to create a competitive market in electricity.
CMOs were created when Wall Street bought mortgages, bundled them by the thousands and carved up the portfolios into securities for sale to yield-hungry investors.
PA's consultants were paid through a traditional partnership arrangement: every year the profits were carved up among the senior consultants in proportion to their salaries.
In any event, allowing Bosnia to be carved up by its ethnic bosses would set a disastrous precedent for other Balkan countries, especially volatile Macedonia.
International routes will be carved up between two or three mega-alliances.
Glyn Davies, parliamentary private secretary to the secretary of state for Wales, whose Montgomeryshire seat is carved up, said he was "hugely disappointed by the changes".
But Johnson, who had previously said that the stores would be carved up into 100 mini-shops by the end of 2015, on Wednesday backtracked a bit.
If the strategy fails to revive Carrefour's French hypermarkets by the end of next year, some investors will demand that the firm be taken to the charcuterie counter and carved up.
Indeed, thick layers of caked mud carved up the streets on Saturday, evidence of the rushing water's movement down the hill and into Lake Superior, and some roads were simply missing.
And it further weakened the old patronage system of Proporz, whereby many public-sector jobs, from drivers and janitors to head teachers and diplomats, were carved up between members of the two main parties.
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The more respectable reasons include his party's opposition to the time-dishonoured system of Proporz, whereby the two hitherto main parties carved up just about all public-sector jobs, from ambassadors to health inspectors, between them.
Another advantage to LLCs is that entrepreneurs can divvy up profits any way they choose, whereas with shareholders, the spoils have to be carved up in proportion to each shareholder's percentage ownership in the corporation.
Nothing in the manner of the film-making is as witty or insolent as the scene in which Banksy has a red London phone booth carved up, welded into a dogleg, and put back where it stood.
Many bankers say reforms should not go so far as to stifle profits that would return the banking sector to health, and they argue against a return to Depression-era laws that carved up the world of finance.
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So when the French and the British carved up the region, they basically carved large sections that most of the people in the region thought of as Syria and gave it to this little entity that had been Mount Lebanon.
"They just carved us up, just sliced us up for easy baskets, " he said.
Moral to be drawn from these cases: Have a good economic purpose to your trusts (or your carved-up Roth accounts).
The White House says that the president was updated through the night as Hurricane Sandy carved its way up the coast - signing two declarations of disaster.
Behind the hall, a 17m marble carriageway carved with dragons leads up to the entrance.
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