Sentences with phrase «of pitting them against each other»

With all of the things that have been thrown at the characters this season, are you surprised that is hasn't all brought Rachel and Quinn closer together, instead of pitting them against each other?

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Both «Fortnite» and «PUBG» follow the same formula of pitting 100 players against each other on an island that's shrinking in size.

Although we already have a full buying guide to the best smart speakers, we thought it'd be fun and helpful to pit the Google Home and the Amazon Echo against each other in a battle royale for the title of best smart home speaker.

For the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a year.

While business investors would normally trust Gov. Bruce Rauner, a former private - equity executive, to veto the legislation, the industry's trade group fears the unpopular Republican may cave in an election cycle that pits him against Biss and a pack of other Democratic contenders.

«We're pitting the different clubs against each other to see which can get the most people to join,» explains Shanna Kane, vice president of marketing.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

That's the gist of «For Honor,» which arrives just in time to pit you and your Valentine against each other.

The concept of debt - to - income ratio (both front - end and back - end) pits two variables against each other: your debts and your earnings.

The legal dispute pits the sons of prominent figures in the community against each other in an enterprise that recruited the children of well - connected Raleigh families.

Fact: If you take three traders with the exact same abilities and trading talent and pit them against each other, on average only one of the traders will survive.

As mentioned above, PoW requires large amounts of resources and energy, and pits miners against each other — with each competing to complete transactions the fastest in order to receive a reward (Bitcoin).

Canadian Universities like UBC, the University of Toronto, McGill, and others have just experienced lively and civil debates that pit students of Hong Kong origins against students of Mainland origins.

Where the nuclear arms race pits the larger countries against each other, the cyber arms race includes a much larger number of combatants since it is open to almost anyone with cash and a computer, according to a front - page article in the Wall Street Journal.

The PayPal partnership also pits Safaricom against other mobile operators and fintech firms like PesaPal who are all focused on bringing the hundreds of thousands of small businesses in Kenya into the digital world.

The conflict pits Cohn — a former Goldman Sachs executive — and other pro-free trade advisers in the administration against the hardcore America First advisers who are staunchly in favor of the tariffs.

The race pits the two wings of the House Republican Conference against each other, going all out to nominate rival candidates.

This media trap pits us against each other for the sake of race, religion, and beliefs as a distraction from whats really going on.

In the stand for example, where two cities in America are pitted against each other after a deadly outbreak kills the majority of the population.

Trying to measure love is like trying to determine inches of the universe and comparing one love to another is like pitting stars against each other instead of letting each simply blaze through the dark.

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

Society has pitted the life of a child against the well - being and future of its mother, and asked us to choose one or the other.

I will not engage in a contest of pitting «experts» opinions against each other as such an exercise is as pointless as biblical proof texting.

On the other hand, the reality is that, «globalization requires the humiliation of hundreds of millions of people keeping them in constant insecurity, pitting them against one another in a competitive struggle for survival» 11.

We must love mother and child equally, limitlessly, and unconditionally, and never pit the alleged good of one against the other.

The ugly tone of this statement led to religious sloganeering ¯ a divisive pitting of «us good guys» against «them others.»

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Held at Manhattan spots that are well known for their rum bars and popular mixologists, the competitions pit some of the leading bartenders against each other, each seeking a place in the final at Rum & Rhythm to determine the CTO Mixologist of the Year.

Both part of the exciting highlights of Australian Culinary Challenge, the competitions give chefs, trainees and apprentices the opportunity to pit their skills against each other and against the clock.

We pitted store - bought varieties of canned whole tomatoes (including San Marzanos and plain old plum tomatoes) against each other in a blind taste test.

Aside from being hit with more red tape and a cost burden, they say it would pit its own buyers against each other as they compete for shelf space to avoid accusations of collusion, with branded products the big loser.

On Saturday morning guests filed into Relish Culinary Adventures to attend the first seminar, «Tournament of the Pig,» which divided the five celebrity chefs into two teams pitting them against each other in an Iron Chef - style competition.

Wines that have already been awarded regional trophies — themselves all gold medal winners — are pitted against each other according to their style in lengthy blind tasting sessions, conducted by a select team of experts at Decanter's purpose - built tasting room in London.

Let's focus on the fact that this bout pits two world - class performers against each other while they're both at the top of their game.

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on...

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on an aircraft carrier.

Now there is a College Football Playoff, which pits the top four teams in the country against each other, instead of BCS rankings.

Check out this unbelievable WAG battle, pitting two of the hottest women alive against each other to see who comes out on top — Ex-Arsenal and Liverpool WAG Alice Goodwin vs Bayern Munich and Germany beauty Ann Kathrin Brommel...

Think of the ACC / Big Ten Challenge, which pits nearly every team from one league against a team from the other league.

Lone Tuesday night matchup pits two of the top three teams in the MAC West against each other on ESPNU.

Wednesday's most anticipated game pits two of the league's top teams against each other with the San Antonio Spurs (24 - 10) hosting the Chicago Bulls (28 - 8).

If the scenery isn't enough to convince you to tune into the Pinstripe Bowl, the actual football game pits two pretty evenly matched teams from the middle of the Big Ten and ACC against each other.

Hoping to capitalize on the success of The World Series of Poker, the blackjack show was shot at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut and pits players against each other as well as the house for a $ 100,000 purse.

The four bowls not hosting one of the semifinal games would host other marquee bowl games pitting highly ranked teams against one another.

This is the chaos of modern academia where every department and division runs like its own little business, and most of them are pitted against each other to fight for those truckloads of cash, while the administrators act like its out of their control...

The International Champions Cup is returning this summer and the fixtures that will pit 18 of Europe's biggest teams, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Manchester City, Juventus and Bayern Munich, against each other across three continents have been released.

The rematch pits two of the best Super-Middleweights in the world against each other, and Carl Froch is looking to exact revenge on the man who ended his unbeaten record nearly three years ago.

On Sunday at RFK Stadium, Turner's Skins gave him a 10 - 3 victory over the Bears in the Jimmy Johnson Alumni Bowl, which pitted two of Johnson's former Cowboys assistants, Turner and Chicago coach Dave Wannstedt, against each other.

It pits two part - timers against each other, it creates a real legend vs. legend situation that devoted fans of both can easily latch onto, and really, it's just going to look good on a marquee or a banner, because it's something many, many people have been waiting for.