Sentences with phrase «pitted against a group»

The Champions» Ballad, however, is a little different as it is a huge chain of quests It starts in a super-difficult combat trial, pitting you against groups of enemies with a short - range weapon that can one - shot anything, but reduces your health so anything can one - shot you.

Not exact matches

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

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.

Sometimes true evil geniuses will even divide and conquer, pitting two people or groups against each other.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

In the study, researchers pitted three groups against each other.

The offering will pit Nasdaq against two bigger competitors, CME Group Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc., both of which already announced plans to offer cryptocurrency derivatives.

The controversy pits leaders of religious groups that sponsor about 1 million Boy Scouts against activists who want the organization to end its ban on openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders.

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

Or else you wouldn've successfully pitted the two main dangerous groups (Muslims & Christians) to your vile Stnic existence, against one another.

PFG is pitted against many competitors in its industry, and it sets itself apart by taking the role of a customer's support group, Sanelli says.

They have been pitted against Italy, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland in Group E.

The draw for Group E of the 2018 World Cup has pitted Brazil against Switzerland, Costa Rica and Serbia, with the Brazilians very much favourites to finish top of the standings.

Great Britain - who were seeded for the draw - were pitted against New Zealand, Cameroon and Brazil in Group E and will kick off their campaign at the Millennium Stadium against the Football Ferns on July 25.

Estoril face Freiburg with both clubs hoping for their first victory in Group H, a pool which also pits leaders Sevilla against Slovan Liberec.

Premier League runners - up Arsenal take on Paris St - Germain, Basel and Ludogorets in Group A, while London rivals Tottenham, returning to the competition for the first time since 2011, will be content with a draw that pits them against CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and Monaco.

Foden also started in City's first defeat of the season, away to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League group stage, but both could benefit from the experience of pitting themselves against Basel in a knockout tie.

Every World Cup there's a consensus «Group of Death» where there are 3 or 4 really strong teams all pitted against each other in the opening

In the group stages, Anderlecht were pitted against Saint - Etienne, Mainz 05 and Gabala.

They were pitted in group A where they have to compete against the likes of: Russia, Portugal and Mexico.

Manchester United: Jose Mourinho's side entered the group stages of the Europa League this season, pitted against Feyenoord, Zorya Luhansk, and Fenerbahce.

Why pit one group against the other?

These games pit guest against guest, either in direct head - to - head competition or pits the guests against the entire group as they try to complete a goal better than anyone else does.

But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.

And on December 8th, these skills will be tested to the limit when MPs and peers from Qureshi's all - party group will pit themselves against Garry Kasparov, the Russian opposition figurehead and Chess Grandmaster.

«They were the worst cynical politics trying to pit people against one another, trying to pit groups against one another.

The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»

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

And the solutions we offer have to improve the lives of everyone, not pit one group of people against another.

Our governor should be uniting our state and spurring economic empowerment statewide, not pitting one group against another.

«My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

I was only saying that we are, thank God, a democracy, and when our leaders pit group against group, it's not constructive.»

«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.

Proponents of expanding background checks for gun purchases formally kicked off a campaign in Maine — one of two key national races this year pitting a group co-founded by billionaire former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a response to mass shootings in 2014 against the group it was meant to target — the NRA.

«The current political debate over how to fund New York's transit pits congestion pricing against a tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers,» the groups» report states.

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

A Houston - area congressional seat, now held by Republican John Culberson, pits national liberal groups against Democrats» House campaign arm in Washington.

It would pit a group of pro-Trump primary challengers against sitting lawmakers who are perceived as more mainstream.

The group, appearing live on Al Sharpton's radio show while standing in his office on 145th Street on Saturday, said the congressional lines drawn by a judge increased the number of Latino residents in Rangel's district, which they said unfairly pit the two ethnic groups against one another.

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.

In the 1950s, Solomon Asch, a pioneer in social psychology, pitted naive test subjects against a group of strangers who made bizarre judgments about the relative lengths of lines.

«Every day, the Republican leadership tries to find a new way to pit one desperate group of Americans against another.

The move is the latest in an ongoing legal battle that has pitted animal protection groups and their allies against an industry fighting to regain a foothold in the United States.

By pitting sperm from the two species against each other in a race to the top of a test tube, Hopi Hoekstra, a Harvard University evolutionary geneticist, and her group found that the fastest sperm are ones that have tails with a longer midsection.

The debate has pitted scientists against each other, and some environmental groups against the timber industry.

A large group of government researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Merlewood, Rothamsted Research, and the Scottish Crop Research Institute designed a trial that would pit three GM crops against conventional counterparts in some 60 fields across the country.

Since then, the research has pitted groups that question the ethics of harvesting stem cells from human embryos against those that hope the line of research could result in important medical breakthroughs.

It's an exhilarating thriller that pits a disparate group of people against an insidious military - industrial conspiracy.

After he is blackmailed about his sexuality by a smart - alecky but sad - sack classmate (Logan Miller) who reads the private emails Simon has written to his mystery love, Simon will do anything to maintain the status quo in his life, his escalating cover - up lies unintentionally pitting his friends against each other and creating confusion and resentment among the group and, finally, toward him.

Pitting a Black female against a group of mostly White bad guys, Breaking In attempts to challenge the typical stereotype — although it has been met various films before.