Sentences with phrase «pit you against»

By definition, when you set out to disrupt you're taking aim at an existing market — which means pitting yourself against large, established players that have much greater resources and reach.

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.

Summary: Two brothers are pitted against one another in an Irish neighborhood, as one is a politician and the other a gangster.

The IT consultancy tied a 4 gigabyte data drive to a pigeon named Winston and pitted him against the leading broadband provider in a data transfer race.

Fans of the MTV reality show The Hills might recall the time when «co-stars» Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port, ostensibly interns in the magazine's West Coast office, were pitted against «intern Emily.»

As a product of the comics pioneer Will Eisner, the character was often pitted against his archnemesis, the Octopus, a mastermind and master of disguise whose face was never shown.

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Once you've selected a specific variable to test, create the different pages that will be pitted against each other.

It was no longer an adversarial relationship that pitted us against them.

It pits you against 100 people on a deserted island.

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.

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.

More recently, Amazon was said to prepare a new shipping service in Los Angeles that would pit it against the big industry carriers UPS and FedEx.

If he does manage to land the Republican nomination, he may very well end up pitted against current Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Among the popular virtual assistants available today, Microsoft's Cortana performed the worst when pitted against Apple's Siri and Google Now.

The party has notoriously been divided on the issue, with its environmental wing pitted against the unions, which backed the project in hopes it would produce a significant amount of American jobs (which it won't).

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

The co-founder and partner of Retail Advisors Network points out that Leon's desired market positioning pits it against furniture companies such as CB2 and EQ3, which already have proven track records of selling exquisite products that stoke envy among house guests.

Pitted against the bombastic businessman, Sanders would lead 50 percent to 37 percent.

TECHNOLOGY doesn't have to be pitted against privacy, says Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton.

This anxiety, Zhang says, stems from the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), when friends and family members were pitted against one another and millions of Chinese were killed in political struggles.

You want lenders competing for your business, and get hard quotes so you can pit them against each other.

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.

The results are similar when Trump is pitted against the left - leaning MSNBC — 45 % trust MSNBC more, 32 % trust Trump more, and 16 % trust both equally.

The world's largest restaurant operator by sales volume gets pitted against the faster - growing ye...

of the vote on Sunday following months of bitter campaigning that pitted him against all major opposition parties, including the anti-system 5 - Star Movement.

I no longer see my favorite players pitted against some other players.

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

George Weigel notes the long hunger among some more left - leaning Catholics to revive Paul VI's work and pit it against the economics implied in John Paul II's Centesimus Annus.

To more easily get your money and devotion, they have to pit you against an «enemy», an enemy who they will make up from their imagination so they can put you into an «us against them» situation.

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.

Pit this against the discoveries made through science and it's no contest.

I love it when someone tries to argue against something and then ends up supporting the theory they are pitted against in their own argument.

Universality and particularity are not to be pitted against one another.

Driven by the Spirit far from humanity's caravan routes, you dared to venture into the untouched wilderness; grown weary of abstractions, of attenuations, of the wordiness of social life, you wanted to pit yourself against Reality entire and untamed.

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

As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire...

Allen came out a poor second in some polite verbal jousting — most likely a case of an amateur agnostic pitted against a professional religionist.

It is focused on defaming Christian belief, pitting it against other beliefs, and elevating atheism.

Anyways, they often get pitted against each other on TV and what they appreciated about each other was that each had a calm and decent manner and maintained it.

We may also discover them in the interstices among these individual and corporate identities, where we must often come to terms with dilemmas that seem to pit us against ourselves and one another.

Concentrate on the fight the religious folks are pitting against public funding for abortions.

What happens to the rule of law when law is divorced from, indeed pitted against, the first political institution?

But it inevitably creates the situation where the freedoms of individuals are pitted against the freedoms of everyone else.

Love that obscures the truth is not love, and truth pitted against love is not truth.

In both these extracts we have the issue clearly set before us: Feeling valid only for the individual is pitted against reason valid universally.

Unfortunately, I think Bell comes up short in considering their partnership and instead pits them against one another.

Evangelicals can be guilty of forgetting that scripture and the Savior are dual authorities — and instead pit them against one another Robert Keay asks... More

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.

Writing in Commonweal, Peter Steinfels, senior religion reporter for the New York Times, describes what is now a very tired scenario: «A church that is democratic, egalitarian, open, embracing, tolerant, innovating, lay - led, diverse, and affirmative of American values is pitted against a church that is autocratic, hierarchical, dogmatic, discriminating, clerical, monolithic, and committed to a European past.»