Sentences with phrase «pit against another human being»

Despite the aged look that it has, it is still surprisingly fun to play with another player, since you are pit against another human being, not the computer.

Not exact matches

While much focus has been on human versus machine — Garry Kasparov versus IBM's Deep Blue in chess matches of the 1990s or the Watson computer pitted against human champions on Jeopardy — the greatest potential for advancement comes from humans partnering with computers.

To that end, it's a survival - horror multiplayer game pitting seven Camp Crystal Lake counselors against one very powerful Jason, where everyone is controlled by human players.

It says that 100,000 people are alive today because of the country's laws on abortion and argue that «a world which continues to pit the rights of a woman against the rights of her unborn child is not advancing human rights.»

In discussions of the universally human, the universal is frequently pitted against the particular, but this was not the case with Lewis.

The simplest level of conflict pits human beings against nature.

The irony is that evolutionists have no plausible theory to pit against religious accounts of human origins.

Rights and development are pitted against faith and human life — increasingly, female life.

Until recently, that sort of fiddling with human DNA was only science fiction and allegory, a warning against a new kind of eugenics that could pit the genetic haves and have - nots against each other.

Agrillo, of the University of Padua in Italy, is finishing up several years of pitting humans against fish in trials of their abilities to compare quantities.

The strategy, referred to as a «living antibiotic,» would pit one group of bacteria — given as a drug and dubbed «the predators» — against the bacteria that are wreaking havoc among humans.

Software teams have been battling StarCraft - playing AIs against each other for years in the AIIDE StarCraft AI Competition, but when pitted against humans, the best flesh - and - blood players still have the edge.

Google's AI company has released a simulated 3D environment in which machines can pit themselves against cognitive tests designed for humans

Video games that pit players against human - looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Wake Forest University.

The findings echo research that reported oxytocin levels were raised in teams of human volunteers when they were pitted against each other in games.

In response, Hungar argued that his clients, by having to compete for limited NIH funding as adult stem cell researchers pitted against human embryonic stem cell researchers, are «suffering ongoing hardship....

This year, though, a landmark study was published, pitting 34 common vegetables against eight different types of human cancers.

This study looked at two diets: a carbohydrate rich diet (one rich in plant carbohydrates similar to fruits and vegetables humans consume) and pitted it against the Western, Standard American Diet (SAD)(think high in simple refined carbs, added sugars, and unhealthy fats — this is found in most all home cooked, grocery prepared, and restaurant meals as they use convenient processed ingredients).

This little flower was pitted in a battle royale against various human cancer cells.

Its place as a sequel to «The Winter Soldier» is questionable at best, pitting Steve «Captain America» Rogers (Chris Evans) against Tony «Iron Man» Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) over the political ramifications of weapons - grade human beings.

It is also intriguing, a what - if survival scenario pitting nearly every world force against the human spirit and a strong parental bond.

Star Trek: Nemesis pits man against himself in a battle of shared genetics and lifetime experiences arguing that the aspiration to be a better person may be a human quality, but acting on that potential is an individual choice.

Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people against each other.

This mode is being described as «PvPvPvE» by its designers, who pit three teams of human players against both one another and various groups of zombies who appear in areas of the map that are triggered when you are near.

Bana's personal account gives a poignant human face to a nearly six - year conflict pitting President Bashar al - Assad against rebels seeking to oust him, in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes.

We entered into the sadistic dog fighting industry — where dogs are pitted against one another for human greed and entertainment.

When researchers pitted the omega - 3 fat eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) against the antidepressant drug fluoxetine (brand name Prozac), EPA was just as effective as the drug in relieving symptoms of depression in humans — and the same may be true in dogs as well.4

The game pits aliens and humans against each other in a unique manner whereby both teams are required to build a base or at least key elements of a base to survive.

Thankfully there are multiplayer modes to pit you against other human LBX users.

Primal Carnage: Extinction is a multiplayer shooter which can pit human against dinosaur or dinosaur against its own kind.

It is human nature to want to take sides when you perceive there to be a conflict, and in the EA versus Activision video game publishing war, the recurring battle pitting their FPS franchises against one another is one of the favourite conflicts of the gaming landscape.

You pick a hero who comes with a pre-made deck (you can, of course, create your own) and enter the PvP arena to be pitted against a fellow human.

«To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that team - based combat has been pitted against real - time strategy in a balanced, live - action online game,» said Michael A. Williams, CEO of Reality Gap, Inc. «Shooters must confront swarms of alien opponents, but unlike most FPS games, they are playing against aliens managed by a human intelligence looking to outwit and outmaneuver them.»

The AI Arena allows players to pit customisable squads of human soldiers and mutants against each other or prove themselves in several challenges

Update 2.4 for Elite Dangerous will pit humans against the Thargoids, and players will be able to do more than simply sit staring in awe from their cockpit seats.

Many criticised the move, especially after Square Enix separated what would have been the multiplayer feature of the game and released it as a free - to - play MMO titled Nosgoth which pits humans against vampires.

There are the vaguely human monsters that populate early chapters, wielding hatchets and hurling sticks of dynamite like super-charged zombies, but as the game wears on you're pitted against increasingly nasty and challenging foes.

While earlier Mass Effect games focused on the defense of the Milky Way galaxy, with humans pitted against a race of ruthless mechanical invaders known as the Reapers, the new story will take the game in a dramatic new direction and is set in a new region of space, with a new and deadly enemy.

Pitting players against each other as humans or dinosaurs, Dino Modereveals which species are cunning and lethal enough to rise to the top of the food chain.

This exhibition utilizes Kant's approach to reconsider how certain twentieth - century artists engaged the frontiers of human understanding in works that pit people's sight and insight against the limits of what they are able to comprehend, i.e. the things they believe themselves to be seeing as opposed to «things - in - themselves» (Kant's code word for humans» inability to move beyond their own constructed views).

From literal urban jungles to the so - called untarnished wilderness, from the scientific realities of climate change to the poetic human longing for time outside, Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural whuman longing for time outside, Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural wHuman Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural world.

Humorous and ominous at the same time, Morgan Bulkeley's images offer compelling scenarios where humans are pitted against nature, with nature holding the advantage.

Humorous and ominous at the same time, Morgan Bulkeley's active, engrossing images offer compelling scenarios where humans are pitted against nature, with nature holding the advantage.

Architecture and its ordered, ordering imperative is consistently pitted against human frailty and our irrational impulses.

This is particularly true because no nation will be considering human - driven climate change in isolation, but pitting it against energy security and other real - time risks.

It's human nature, this ongoing collision course that for several decades now has pitted North America's bird and bat lovers against the still somewhat - fledgling — but rapidly growing — wind industry.

The court specifically stated that it was «modifying the Maryland common law of liability as it relates to attacks by pit bull and cross-bred pit bull dogs against humans.»

The human body is no match when pitted against a steel object weighing +2,000 pounds.

In the demonstration, NASA researchers pitted a human - controlled drone against one controlled by AI.

Bungie is also adding a ranked mode for its competitive Crucible multiplayer mode, which pits humans against other humans (as opposed to against artificial intelligence - powered enemies), as well as private matches so players can compete directly against friends and have more control over the Crucible experience.