Sentences with phrase «old pitted against»
It is classic David and Goliath tale, with a legally unrepresented 17 - year - old pitted against the awesome power of the ICBC.
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In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.
Back in Barrie, Leone checks on a one - year - old elevator to demonstrate how an ideal maintenance job should go: He climbs into the pit at the bottom of the shaft and replaces the pads that absorb dripping oil; he wipes the crud and cobwebs from the elevator's bottom; he rests an ear against the door to listen to its mechanical innards; he straddles the door to ensure it nudges him out of the way properly.
The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.
Pits old line VFW, AmLegion against Koch stalking horse CVA.
Admittedly, that's an old story, but now with the different dimension of a more cautious and even compassionate Rome pitted against bishops determined to prove their toughness by casting priests into the outer darkness.
(Fancy pitting the happiness of an old well, ejaculates Chuang Tzu, against all the water of ocean!)
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.
In basketball - crazy Indiana the Nostalgia Sectionals pit old high school rivals against each other
Jan 04,2016... In an age - old face - off that pits Mom against rock and roll, LoriGarver and Lance Bass are vying to b...
And the Heat - Lakers matchup was a staple of Christmases during the mid-2000s, as it pitted Kobe Bryant against his old teammate, Shaquille O'Neal.
Montag was pitting his mailman's stride (not to mention his beer drinker's gut) against a mere sophomore, 15 - year - old Bob Sells, who had swum the 50 in 22.4 just a week earlier (as against Montag's best - ever 24.8).
It seems incredible to think a player of such an age was ready to pit his wits in the Championship, but apparently the kid was playing against 18 - year - olds whilst he was just 12!
Man Utd host Man City at Old Trafford in a Premier League title showdown this weekend, as it pits the top two against each other.
The draw pitted Klopp against his old darlings from the Bundesliga.
It has been called the «Pogbattle», a clash that pits brother versus brother, as Manchester United host Ligue 1 side St. Etienne in the Europa League round of 32, with the world's most expensive footballer, Paul Pogba, facing off against one of his two older brothers, centre - back and Guinean international Florentin Pogba.
It's top versus bottom at Old Trafford this Saturday − well, kind of − with Manchester United hosting Blackburn Rovers in a contest which pits two former Premier League champions against one another in the day's early kick - off, shown live on ESPN from Midday.
-- This fixture also pits the league's leading scorers against each other as Wayne Rooney (9) and Sergio Aguero (8) go head - to - head at Old Trafford.
The disdainful tone to the ad makes me feel like they're pitting one kind of woman against another — creating yet another iteration of the age - old divide between the «good» woman and the woman who strays from her socially prescribed role.
Nutritionally speaking, when you pit animal crackers against graham crackers I think what you have — to quote my old law school professors — is «a distinction without a difference.»
Shrouded in fears of violence, the vote pitted President Uhuru Kenyatta, a wealthy 55 - year - old businessman and the son of Kenya's founding president, against Raila Odinga, 72, a former political prisoner and son of Kenya's first vice-president.
This time, using that old tactic of «divide and conquer» to pit the Hispanic community against the non-Hispanic community, especially the Republicans in the New York State Senate to secure the nomination of Miss Jenny Rivera, a «Puerto Rican,» to the State of New York's top Court, the Court of Appeals.»
The race pits Gonzalez, a 26 - year - old community organizer, who is trying to become the first WFP - only Assembly member, against Towns» sister, Deidra, who is running on her own, Community First line, and Rafael Espinal on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines.
Veteran U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high - profile runoff election that pitted the Republican party's old guard against its anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
The former energy and climate change secretary is expected to announce his intention to succeed Gordon Brown in a move that will pit him against his older brother David, the former foreign secretary.
Nobody likes paying taxes, but nothing good can come from pitting older homeowners against the younger working people in our community.
Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place to enter the games, and is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she's pitted against highly - trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives.
Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan are the parents who talk about her like she's not there and are constantly pitting 6 - year - old Maisie against the other.
The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.
Adaptation of old arcade favorite pits the star against mutated creatures — and quickly goes down the Dwayne
Playing on the hipster habit of prizing of all things retro, the film leaves no stone unturned in pitting the Bushwick Bohemians against the older yuppies.
Three years ago, director Sam Mendes took the reins of the Bond franchise, pitting cyber terrorism against old fashioned knuckle and grit, employing the most talented international actors working, and crafting the single best 007 film of its then 50 - year legacy, Skyfall.
There is no traditional story though aside from the opening cutscene which acts as a flashback pitting Lighting McQueen against the old racing legends.
The film is played out in the last few days of the all - important Ohio Democratic primary, when the charismatic pro-choice and non-believer Morris is pitted against the older, duller and more centrist candidate Senator Pullman (Michael Mantell).
Demon's Souls is an action role - playing game that pits you against the forces of The Old One as you fight to save humanity from extinction.
The generation gap has never been wider than it is in Pieter Van Hees» deliriously absurd satire, pitting old generation money against Millennial apathy — and the occasional naked anarchist — following Belgium's economic collapse.
After the Q&A, there was another segment wherein two volunteers were pitted against one another in the Krull video game (somehow even more old - school looking than Krull), and then Krull screened.
The report goes on to state that Halloween Returns will pit a new group of Haddonfield youngsters against Myers, as the now 18 - year - old child of one of Myers» victims plays a central role along with the child of a cop whose long been obsessed with Myers» case, even putting it before his own daughter.
A loner with a talent for guns in the Old West has a scheme to get a coffin full of gold by pitting warring factions of Confederate soldiers against Mexican rebels.
But McBride sniffs around enough to sense that there's a coverup — one that leads directly back to his old firm, now controlled by his creepy ex-partner, Donald Cooperman (William Hurt), a recluse who watches his employees on camera and deliberately pits female attorneys against one another.
What's on Refn's mind is fairly obvious, so while he probably means well in saying that we shouldn't pit women against each other based on their looks and put them down for not looking like a 16 - year - old Elle Fanning, it's only worth a shrug of agreement if the filmmaker can't bring anything more to the conversation.
The series, from executive producer David E. Kelley, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a washed - up lawyer whose professional life is turned upside down when a young lawyer who has just been fired from his old firm brings him a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm.
More than anything else, Room 514 plays like a stripped - down, if not downright impoverished, version of A Few Good Men, in which an army newcomer's zeal is pitted against the unwritten, near - atavistic code of old timers and their ruthlessly programmed minions.
This old - fashioned oater miniseries pits the two fellers against one another in a rivalry that can only end with hot lead.
On the surface the intro appears to indicate a fairly straightforward action packed adventure as expert bank thief Jack (Gossler) gets in over his head and is pitted against Eddie (Willis), a mysterious old pro.
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At first, the old polarities seemed to hold, pitting education groups like the UTLA against downtown developers and fiscal conservatives.
The race pits Mr. Fields, a 32 - year - old liberal Democrat who is black, against Mr. Foster, a 65 - year - old white multimillionaire who recently left the Democratic Party to run as a Republican.
Rebel Fire: Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins, Book 2 by Andrew Lane (Macmillan / FSG; Macmillan Young Listeners) pits 14 - year - old Sherlock Holmes against assassin John Wilkes Booth, who is apparently alive and well in England, and mixed up with Holmes's American tutor Amyus Crowe.
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