Sentences with phrase «pitted against a number»

Read the BHA's previous news item «London Assembly vote pits them against Number 10 plans for more religious selection in state schools»:

Just like Subset Games» previous title (Faster Than Light) Into the Breach pits you against any number of randomly generated...

While playtimes will vary based on a game's use of vibration, use of a headset, and other factors, the Battery: Kit Pro exhibited some solid performance when pitted against a number of rivals.

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Like increasing numbers of low - income mothers and fathers, Ms. Navarro is at the center of a new collision that pits sophisticated workplace technology against some fundamental requirements of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single mothers.

Where the nuclear arms race pits the larger countries against each other, the cyber arms race includes a much larger number of combatants since it is open to almost anyone with cash and a computer, according to a front - page article in the Wall Street Journal.

Each matchup will pit the American League against the National League, with Trumbo listed as the number one seed.

Labrador was an influential member of the House Freedom Caucus, inserting himself into a number of legislative fights that pitted conservatives against party leadership.

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.

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.

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

Quick race allows you to race against a number of competitors on any track you have unlocked in the career mode, while time trial pits you against the clock again on any track which you have previously unlocked.

Though Armored Core 3's main single - player mode revolves around a mission - based structure, there's also an arena mode where you can pit your AC against a number of increasingly difficult computer - controlled foes in one - on - one battles for prize money.

The 4 - player co-op is still available in the terrorist hunt missions, which pit your team against a set number of terrorists on a multiplayer map.

Never one to shy away from a good slaughter, the prolific Japanese auteur dials up the violence even by his high standards, orchestrating not one but two massive battles of attrition that a pit lone wolf swordsman against absurdly large numbers of disposable enemy combatants.

The supporting men were conquered by Chris Cooper, who was astonishing in «Adaptation,» and I doubt anyone else could have won pitted against him, but there were an equal number of other performances deserving of at least the nod.

By blaming seniority for losing «passionate, hardworking, effective teachers» to budget - based layoffs, he pits new teachers against veteran teachers instead of focusing on the huge numbers of excellent teachers who regularly leave urban districts like Oakland.

In this article, Greg Anrig compares the adversarial approach to school improvement typified by New York City under Bloomberg — which pits teachers and their unions against «reformist» district administrations — with a collaborative approach that a number of districts have adopted.

While a number of approaches are available, they are typically described in contentious terms, with war metaphors pitting the whole language camp against the phonics supporters.

So we pitted it against one of the biggest names in the business and the number - one choice among retail buyers, the 2014 Honda Accord.

The model is an important one for Range Rover, pitted against the likes of the Mercedes - Benz GLC - Class, BMW X3 and the Porsche Macan — all vehicles that have seen impressive sales numbers for years.

Nonetheless, Cabral now appears to be well on his way to joining Cesar Millan and Victoria Stilwell among the pantheon of dog trainers favored by shelter personnel and rescuers who insist on believing, against the weight of centuries of evidence and experience and soaring numbers of deaths and disfigurements inflicted by «rescued» dogs, that pit bulls in particular can be trained out of high reactivity and impulsive aggression, and can be made «safe» despite histories of dangerous behavior.

Finally, if you make it through a number of days of survival you are then gradually pitted against Maxwell in various ways.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Also worth checking out is the 3v3 and 5v5 modes, which as the name suggests is pits a team of three or five people against a team of equal number, the team with the most victories claiming the overall win.

Pitting two teams of heroes against each other with a number of combinations for hero composition sounds downright fun.

Mortal Kombat X's most substantial feature is the online Faction War, an MMO - like persistent battle that pits player occupied factions against each other in a behind - the - scenes battle of numbers.

PvP: Players can compete against each other in Duels, Conclaves, and Solar Rail Conflicts that pit different numbers of players against each other with different objectives.

We feature more audio giveaways, try to cover over a month's worth of gaming and movie news, talk about the astounding number of games we've been playing, discuss Captain America: The Winter Soldier, dissect the new Super Smash Bros information, ruminate on the future of Final Fantasy, pit Infamous Second Son against Titanfall in the battle of the next - gen exclusives, mock each other's Trophy progress and much, much more.

The game's main single - player mode pits players against computer - controlled opponents with options to control difficulty level and the number of lives.

M.H Well EMH... on a stack of numbers alone... when you pit thousands and tens of thousands of reearchers over many years against the pit of a well funded vocal noisy denialist minority then I guess Ill take the majority consensus... if the market the advancement of mankind is a product of our collective intelligence... then you are losing very badly and are a supporter of ignorance.

I mean here we are again good against evil on an infinity of unique planets, once again pitted against each other for God's entertainment an infinity number of times.

The hour - long event will be livestreamed through Capcom's Twitch channel, and if you happen to get there early, you'll be able to catch a special «Streamer Showdown,» which pits a number of YouTube personalities and Twitch streamers against one another in a Mega Man trivia challenge.

Here we've pitted two leading wireless charger makers, Mophie and Belkin, against each other, with their identically priced pads clashing head - to - head on a number of important performance criteria.