Sentences with phrase «pitted against»

With limited resources pitted against a seemingly limitless number of ways to produce terror, we will probably always be chasing a moving target.

The whole notion that the economy should be pitted against the environment is a completely false choice.

So Lee pitted it against HIV, a pathogen he had worked with extensively — it worked there, too.

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.

Pitted against this relentless push is the gravitational pull from the rest of the matter and energy in the universe.

Health professionals the world over encounter conflicts of dual loyalty, in which their professional obligations to their patients are pitted against the interest of others, like the state.

Labour MPs will be pitted against each other as constituencies such as mine are carved up.

But, when pitted against Rudy Giuliani, the race against Cuomo is tighter, but Cuomo would still beat Giuliani.

Paterson's prospects look a little better when pitted against fomer U.S. Representative Rick Lazio.

Sutton lost her congressional seat after redrawn congressional districts pitted her against Rep. Jim Renacci in 2012, who then defeated her.

When pitted against Congressman Anthony Weiner, City Comptroller Bill Thompson, or City Council Member Tony Avella, Bloomberg leads Weiner 53 % to 37 %, outpaces Thompson 53 % to 36 % and defeats Avella 57 % to 30 %.

Miner and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney are pitted against one another: Miner strongly opposes the merger proposal, while Mahoney favors it.

However, there is a large gap between Bloomberg's job approval rating — 59 % — and the proportion of electoral support he would receive when pitted against hypothetical opponents.

She receives 54 % of the vote when pitted against DioGuardi who garners 27 %.

Kallos» views and approach have pitted him against, among others, Assemblyman Micah Kellner, who has already landed endorsements from Lappin and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney.

She handily won June's Congressional primary, where she was pitted against Syracuse attorney Steve Williams and Syracuse University professor Eric Kingson.

And, for the first time ever, two women are pitted against each other in a statewide race.

Asked about problems with Albany schools, McLaughlin pointed out that while public schools and charter schools are often pitted against one another, they're all public schools in the sense that they all run on public money.

It would create chaos where one group of MPs were being pitted against another.

When pitted against U.S. Representative Peter King, Gillibrand has widened her lead.

When she is currently pitted against former Republican New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a hypothetical matchup for U.S. Senate, Gillibrand has some ground to gain.

When pitted against former New York Governor George Pataki, Pataki edges Gillibrand 48 % to 44 %.

The web spot, from American Crossroads, comes as Judd openly speculates about a 2014 run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, where she'd potentially be pitted against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

It also would have pitted her against the leading Democratic presidential candidates at a time when she is already under fire over the debate schedule; former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is the only one opposing the Iran deal.

Tokar is on to something, however, when he says «with the Nader campaigns in 1996 and 2000, the existing Green networks were taken over by tendencies with mainstream electoral ambitions that pitted them against the more left - wing voices within the Greens.»

Another one of the great achievements in this past Bronx Primary Election season is that there were no Hispanic candidates pitted against any African American incumbents.

Instead it drives more wedges between disenfranchised communities that are continually pitted against each other by the agents of racism and homophobia.»

Should he choose to fight the Leeds South and Outwood seat, he could find himself being pitted against shadow Cabinet colleague Hilary Benn, whose existing Leeds Central constituency would be partly folded into the new seat.

When Pennsylvania lost a seat in reapportionment, the new district pitted him against another Democratic incumbent.

When pitted against Republican candidate, former U.S. Representative Rick Lazio, Cuomo leads Lazio, 61 % to 30 %, respectively.

In the Assembly, Republican leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua said two of his members would be pitted against each other in a Central New York district and an incumbent Republican and incumbent Democrat would be forced to seek the same Buffalo district.

Two - term Albany County Family Court Judge Peggy Walsh is pitted against Justin Corcoran, an Albany attorney.

Cuomo has been on solid ground when pitted against Lazio who doesn't even receive a majority within his own party.

But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.

Little has changed, however, when the governor is pitted against Rick Lazio, and there is no consensus among voters.

Initial public maps released by the lawmaker - driven task force on redistricting drew together Queens Democrats into the same districts: Sen. Toby Stavisky, who was elected in 1999; against Sen. Tony Avella; Sens. Michael Gianaris was pitted against Jose Peralta.

As How Parliament Works, a textbook on parliamentary procedure puts it, it can help an MP «feel a little less like David pitted against Goliath».

They had pitted us against each other, just as Thatcher had done with the working classes: brother fought brother, and father died.

«They are trying to practise the politics of division - public against private sector, working people against those on benefits, one region pitted against another.

After the decennial redistricting process, where a state body redraws political boundaries to accommodate for population change, her Beechhurst co-op was drawn into the same district as Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), which would have pitted them against each other in a primary.

Neither chairman seemed to be concerned about their candidate's poor poll numbers in New York when pitted against his fellow Empire State resident, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

«We have never played a battle like this where the national feeling for two groups are being pitted against each other,» said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who predicted a renewed focus on Espaillat's background during his final push.

How does Cuomo fare when pitted against potential Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio?

When pitted against Congressman Anthony Weiner, Weiner receives a majority of registered voters in New York City — 52 % — to Kelly's 33 %.

Anderson, who ran unsuccessfully for Albany mayor in 2013, could be pitted against Common Councilman Frank Commisso Jr., Council President Carolyn McLaughlin and Mayor Kathy Sheehan in a four - way Democratic primary should his petition as a Democrat go through.

When pitted against Rick Santorum, 61 % of registered voters support Obama while 33 % are for Santorum, and 6 % are undecided.

A civil war has erupted within the Working Families Party over whether to back Cuomo for re-election, with labor leaders who support the governor pitted against party leaders and grass roots activists.

The race saw the government's coalition partners pitted against each other, but Tory candidate Anne McIntosh won the delayed fight with 20,167 votes.

Much of this mistrust was cultivated during French colonisation as groups were pitted against each other in divide - and - conquer fashion.

Senate Democrats who complain about six incumbent democrats pitted against each other are just «carping,» Nozzolio says.