Sentences with phrase «pitched against»

For Street Fighter V, we'll get the Shoryuken tournament, which will pitch eight top players pitched against each other for a prize pool of 1 million yen.

Contrast that begins at perfect black will always be considerably more striking than 1,000 nit peaks pitched against a milky - grey black level pocked with halos.

The HomePod is just not smart enough when pitched against the likes of the cheap little Amazon Echo or Google Home, Siri is not refined enough and even the experience between the iPhone and the HomePod feels confused.

The new 15.6 - inch Mi Notebook Pro heads up Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi's Apple - aping range of laptops: the Mi Notebook Air, which comes in 12.5 - inch and 13.3 - inch models, is pitched against the MacBook and MacBook Pro 13, while the Mi Notebook Pro has the MacBook Pro 15 in its sights.

While public and private blockchains are often pitched against each other, Baldet told CoinDesk in an interview, «I don't think those two things need to be so different or are necessarily mutually exclusive.»

The kids at the protest say that «We're here because our parents» generation has failed us and its now down to young people to stop climate change...», but really, they're doing the work of the very institutions that they imagine themselves to be pitched against.

Far too often the interests of workers and environmentalists have been pitched against each other, when fundamentally we share the need for a liveable planet and societies based on environmental, social and economic justice.

He flatters himself with the claim that «social justice campaigners and environmentalists» exist on one side of a historical battle, pitched against phantom «neocons, millionaires, and corporations».

Often pitched against prevailing fashions and trends, Richter has worked to reaffirm the status and relevance of the act of painting, viewing it as «one of the most basic human capacities».

In Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Guston).

Instead of focussing on the physical attributes and properties of materiality, pitched against what the press release denies as an immaterial internet space, Feeling in the Eyes will contemplate the «free - flowing» re-negotiation around it, as a concept in itself: «In the post-internet condition, the sensible has been redistributed».

Fractured Figure projects our millennial moment as one of fragile bodies pitched against a restless, dysphasic backdrop, in which terrorism and global warming impinge as daily realities.

Dean uses the most impermanent of materials (the sea would soon wash away her chalky lines) in these storyboard - like drawings, with textual notes surrounding the sea, the ship and the island; fragments of language pitched against the might of nature.

These comprehensive displays were pitched against a presentation of Duchamp's work curated by Herbert Molderings.

Wallinger was the bookies» and art world favourite to win in an uneven contest that saw two fairly senior artists - Wallinger and Mike Nelson, who has also been nominated before, in 2001 - pitched against photographer and film - maker Zarina Bhimji and Glasgow - based sculptor Nathan Coley.

Have you ever wondered who would win if one idiom was pitched against another?

[In Doom] it was your skill pitched against someone else's.

In the VR world of Superhot you're pitched against angry red men made of glass looking to end your existence.

There are two Yoga tablets in 8 and 10 - inch sizes, so we've pitched them against the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 to see just how they compete.

When pitched against the iPad though, there's still the sense that in some ways the Android tablet experience doesn't quite match the dedicated array of apps in Apple's ecosystem.

Miracast is a display mirroring technology pitched against Apple's AirPlay and Intel's WiDi, both of which are criticized as single - vendor closed environments.

At its northernmost limit, the California coastline suffered a winter of brutal winds pitched against iron - clad fog, and roiling seas whose whiplash could scar a man's cheek as quickly as a cat - o» - nine - tails.

The Lexus IS 300h Sport is what Lexus think makes the perfect compact executive express, but despite it being pitched against cars like the BMW 3 -LSB-...]

When pitched against the almost top - spec Range Rover, the chinks in the Lexus» armour start popping out.

Jeep Wrangler Sport The Jeep Wrangler seems like the obvious choice when you talk about off - road adventures, but pitched against newer, more rounded offerings, things didn't stack up as we'd imagined.

The Volkswagen Golf GTI with the DSG gearbox is also pitched against other cars with conventional gearboxes but with better power to weight ratio than the Volkswagen Golf GTI.

The infamous Prado had its work cut defending its long - standing position as the family - friendly off road choice when pitched against the relatively unknown Haval H9.

The new «base» F - type has been pitched against the four - cylinder Porsche 718 Boxster / Cayman, abroad — and we may just see the model make it to India, as well.

Since the launch in February 2017, this is the first sub-4 metre sports utility vehicle from Tata and is pitched against Maruti # 39; s Vitara Brezza......

The Intrigue will be pitched against the Honda Accords, Toyota Camrys and Nissan Maximas that have carved out nearly a million sales annually in the U.S. market.

With its standard quattro AWD, you could make the argument that the A5 isn't the favorite when pitched against the poised RWD - goodness of the Bimmer and Merc.

We liked it when we first sampled it in Germany, and when we pitched it against its rivals on UK roads we liked it even more.

At launch it went toe - to - toe with cars like the Honda S2000 and Nissan 350Z, while we also pitched it against other mechanically quirky rivals like the Subaru Impreza WRX and Volkswagen Golf R32.

When we tested the FN2 in March 2007 (evo 102), we pitched it against the five - cylinder Ford Focus ST, Renault's finally - there Megane R26, the SEAT Leon FR, Astra VXR and Golf GTI Mk5.

Mr Twigg also hit out at the government, saying it has «pitched itself against» the teaching profession, «against the very people it needs onside to deliver the sort of change that our education system needs».

There is an innocence to Sadness, pitched against the overbearing condescension of Joy, and while their need to reconcile their differences and win the day is pure Disney, the implications for how it affects Riley is what makes Inside Out so special.

It crackles with potential energy, Lerman's seething anger pitched against Letts» holier - than - thou smarm.

It's moody, atmospheric and textured, and the completely wrong choice for the film, especially pitched against leading man Ehrenreich's performance, which is only a couple of notches down from his «Hail, Caesar» singing cowboy.

This is a wasted opportunity to see Lara (and the talented acting skills of Vikander) pitched against the elements alone as she battles the rising odds to survive.

The technical achievements are vast, but so is the connection with the central character, her understandably uncertain turn pitched against George Clooney «s winning charisma.

Despite the fact that MyCougarDates.com is one of the most affordable websites in the online sugar momma dating segment, it isn't the ideal platform for cougars and cubs seeking a mutually beneficial relationship, especially when pitched against heavyweights like OlderWomenDating.com.

He's in the eye of the storm pitched against a monsoon.

Fischetti: Another historic, kind of, angle on this might be, well in the»70s [during the] so - called first energy crisis, E. F. Schumacher published this book Small is Beautiful, [which basically said, «big is bad» and I think it was mainly pitched against industry more than anything else.]

Melee using deep learning algorithms, and pitched it against 10 highly ranked players.

«This same ambition had earlier pitched him against his former party leader and governor in the Labour Party (LP).

President Goodluck Jonathan forces are pitched against Governor Timipre Sylva's troops.

In 2015, the Tories will be pitched against a changed Labour party determined to fight the election about the future of the country.

They had much in common, despite being separated by age and class, an Old (but at the same time younger) Etonian pitched against a product of Linlithgow High School.

The competition is down the pecking order from the Premier League, but being pitched against top - flight London rivals, with a Wembley final and glittering tri-handled trophy coming into focus, can force a coach's hand.

Montreal Expo manager Felipe Alou had told Froemming likewise four days earlier when Park pitched against his club.