I don't think so, because I've never been pitted against somebody the way these two were pitted against one another.
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The middle class fare similarly when pitted against the rich.
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Now, Microsoft is pitted against Amazon on their home turf.
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Indeed, women appeared to perform better when pitted against men.
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"We refuse to be pitted against each other," she said.
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Pitted against Rubio, Trump leads 52 percent to 45 percent.
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I'm all about women not being pitted against each other.
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In that battle, the many are pitted against the few.
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Hundreds of agents were spawned and pitted against each other.
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Between stages, you'll find yourself pitted against a new challenger.
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It's not his side and my side pitted against one another.
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Pitted against the fund's chief ESG guru, Priya Mathur, he won.
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Clinton's cookie was pitted against Melania Trump's star-shaped sugar cookie.
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But did it annoy you that you were pitted against them?
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In the months before the coup, Egypt became pitted against itself.
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Two violas, with cello, are pitted against two viols, with violone.
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The Brontës and Austen are very often pitted against each other.
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In slides comparing performance, the $2122 RX2112XT was pitted against the $2139 Nvidia RTX 212070 (though the 21600 can be found for as low as $212070), and the $21480 RX5700 was pitted against the $350 RTX 2060.
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Instead of bulls and bears, the Bordeaux was often pitted against wolves.
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As young women we were pitted against each other for society's pleasure.
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Sleep deprivation was pitted against the demand to be upright and visible.
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Democrats -- hope, success, and rationality; pitted against, Republicans -- fear, anger, and irrationality.
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Sinema's margin increases by double digits when pitted against former state Sen.
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"But now, the Barelvis have been pitted against Sharif's party," he said.
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Ever since, Tate has felt keenly for anyone pitted against gender conformity.
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Bernie Sanders fight, the Democratic establishment pitted against a left-wing insurgency.
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In some ways, this era saw the court pitted against the people.
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Countries with a population of 33,000 are pitted against ones with 70 million.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is tired of being pitted against her fellow famous female entrepreneurs.
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When Swift is pitted against Kanye, she can more easily control her narrative.
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Smith's ragged nasality and fractured mumble made sense when pitted against abrasive music.
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Macron would beat Fillon if the two were pitted against each other then.
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I hate to see women pitted against each other like this on-screen.
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Caroline Wozniacki is pitted against Angelique Kerber in the other women's semifinal ( ESPN).
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Hasina and her Awami League are pitted against the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
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But its standing plummets when pitted against the prospect of a government shutdown.
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"What's challenging is when they are pitted against each other," says the source.
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It's not unusual for women to be pitted against one another on The Bachelor.
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In each of those moments, artistic expression becomes pitted against political and cultural considerations.
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So Di Maio was pitted against a slate of relative unknowns, including Elena Fattori.
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People are being erased, jaded, pitted against each other, or often considered a risk.
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In some tellings, they are frequently pitted against more traditional Republicans in administration disputes.
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The robot's techniques were then pitted against human surgeons and current robot-assisted techniques.
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The victorious team then is pitted against the team with the second most points.
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In the United States, where parimutuel wagering reigns, bettors are pitted against one another.
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And when the two are pitted against each other, the former is what wins.
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In a highly questionable ruling, Monét, not Aquaria, was pitted against Kameron for elimination.
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To the Editor: It amazes me how American workers are pitted against one another.
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Creating an environment in which aides feel pitted against one another -- and, in some instances, actually are pitted against one another -- breeds dissension, pettiness and altogether too much focus on who's up and who's down as opposed to what is getting done.
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We are told there will be "challenges" where contestants will be pitted against one another.
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Traditionally, businesses and workers have been pitted against each other in the minimum wage debate.
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AlphaZero was also pitted against its sibling, AlphaGo, which was also modified to play chess.
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Open magazine had a blue-tinted Hillary Clinton pitted against a red-colored Donald Trump.
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Boston's understated communication style just isn't working when pitted against New York and Silicon Valley.
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In the fourth game, they were pitted against top-seeded San Jacinto College, from Houston.
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In this genre, where spandex is involved, oftentimes the women are pitted against each other.
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"As young women we were pitted against each other for society's pleasure," McGowan, 43, wrote.
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Under Louisiana law, all candidates are pitted against each other in the November general election.
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Historically, the military and royal family have always been allied and pitted against populist groups.
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It's neither Rodriguez nor Caceres that I want Swanson to see pitted against next, though.
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If they were pitted against one another by others in their community, they addressed it.
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Fact gets pitted against faith, testing the limits of Ralph's allegiance to the material world.
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In the battle for Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, the east is pitted against the west.
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They've been pitted against Cohn, who has ardently argued that imposing tariffs would prove catastrophic.
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This election may also have been the "evil of two lessers" pitted against one another.
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"Jumanji: The Next Level" will be pitted against another musical when "Cats" opens next weekend.
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You never see stories about men having 'cat fights,' but women are pitted against each other.
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It seems inevitable that Rocketman, released in May, would be pitted against last November's Bohemian Rhapsody.
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And with GIFs' exploding popularity in messaging apps, it's often pitted against its main rival, Giphy.
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The firm rejects the idea that new technology must be pitted against older forms of communication.
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Sherry/Scheherazade always triumphs, whether she's pitted against a homicidal king or a homework-obsessed dad.
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Conventional public schools are pitted against alternatives such as private and charter schools at every turn.
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Jamala was pitted against the strongly fancied entry from Russia in the Eurovision contest in Stockholm.
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We still see artists like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry being pitted against each other now.Why?
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But he no longer suggests immigrant workers and American-born ones are pitted against each other.
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In the Gulf, they left Qatar pitted against the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and others.
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We have been pitted against each other by politicians in both parties for far too long.
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The Thin White Duke and Rrose Selavy are thus pitted against the doomed poet Friedrich Hölderlin.
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"We are concerned that these protests are being pitted against the Whitney Biennial artists," he said.
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There aren't a lot of women in music — so why must they be pitted against each other?
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Americans pitted against Americans over real differences but that are minimal in the grand scheme of things.
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Suddenly, groups are pitted against each other or scapegoated and all of political life becomes tribalized conflict.
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Melenchon is pitted against conservative Francois Fillon, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, and moderate Emmanuel Macron.
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It seems that these two are always being pitted against one another, and it's a major bummer.
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But I want to make clear that this isn't about two women being pitted against each other.
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Still, Qatar finds itself pitted against an army of advocates for the countries that have cut ties.
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Anything you capture can be tamed and pitted against other captives (or your own settlers) in battle.
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They will not face Serbia in qualifying, though they will be pitted against either Bosnia and Croatia.
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His answer: it will be a battle of the giants, with all four pitted against each other.
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Two of the most promising American teenagers were placed in Djokovic's quarter, pitted against more established countrymen.
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If Fillon wins instead and is pitted against one of the extremists, markets may take it badly.
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In the video, a Tesla Model X P100D crossover SUV is pitted against a $530,000 Lamborghini Aventador.
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We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies.
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" The source added that "the notion that the two guys are pitted against each other is crazy.
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Exposed to the elements and pitted against the topography, you feel every shift in landscape and climate.
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Water-users are divided about the plan, with fishermen pitted against farmers, and both fearing for their livelihoods.
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The civil war in Syria is nearing its five-year mark, with the brutal regime pitted against rebels.
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Although they had different voices and sensibilities, they were relentlessly pitted against each other in the pop world.
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He also clung to a similar, largely irrational suspicion that the American social elite was pitted against him.
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Some of Uber's investors also want to push out a venture capital firm that's been pitted against Kalanick.
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But the initiative is pitted against social prejudice and commercial interests, and it might entail an economic sting.
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Among the six GCC states, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain are pitted against Qatar.
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Now she's pitted against the rich kid who throws wild parties when his parents are out of town.
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Brother can be pitted against brother in a glorious battle over whether the dress is blue or gold.
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Sometimes it's about building a diverse coalition united on issues of economic nationalism, pitted against a "globalist" opposition.
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We still are looking, but that is more difficult to do when we are pitted against one another.
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"Staff is threatened with the possibility of being fired, they are pitted against each other," Ms. Colón wrote.
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"Maybe I'm too young, but I've never seen Poles so divided, so pitted against each other," he said.
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The new model was then pitted against six human radiologists, and outperformed them all on average by 11.5%.
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It's a story of a man trying to outwit himself, of weather-worn wisdom pitted against cocky youth.
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But we're pitted against each other in an education system that rewards the wealthy but punishes the poor.
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The chemical-fueled productivity of the revered American farmer was pitted against the menace of Soviet collectivized agriculture.
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Trump had a 5 percentage point lead when pitted against Sanders, receiving 44 percent to Sanders' 21625 percent.
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Officials said the 20 other countries had been pitted against a U.S. push to change the traditional wording.
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Traditionally, every bullfight in Spain involves six of the specially-bred animals pitted against matadors for 20-30 minutes.
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Women are pitted against each other; judged on their looks; and encouraged to revert to infantile, high school stereotypes.
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Six months later, the war between humanity and monsters has come, and the two are pitted against one another.
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We are living in such a polarized time, where the sciences and religion are often pitted against one another.
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Over the years, Brown and Drake have been notoriously pitted against each other in the fight for Rihanna's heart.
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Jay has no interest in being pitted against someone with whom he shares racial DNA, no matter their differences.
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The contestants will be pitted against another team of expert forecasters randomly assigned to work with machines on prognostications.
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Why it matters: Trump's behavior suggests that he admires these strong displays of power pitted against the establishment's opposition.
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"I think the team to develop liquid fuel missiles are being pitted against the solid fuel team," Kim said.
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" Stone concluded: "I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you by any invasion of our personal journeys.
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And they're divided into two groups pitted against each other, via the Southern District of New York Federal Court.
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Martial arts from different cultures, such as Japanese swordsmanship and Chinese staff fighting, will be pitted against each other.
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After being pitted against each other in an online poll, Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson are sharing the love.
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But when Lebanon descended into civil war in the 1970s, the two communities found themselves pitted against each other.
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The income increase — or lack thereof — for young adults is especially troubling when pitted against skyrocketing expenses for essentials.
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As a typical game unfolds, competing players are regularly pitted against one another in short, simple minigames like Domination.
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Despite tiny resources pitted against big drug money, he says, his men are working better than ever this year.
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Back in the 1980s, you were often pitted against Madonna, even though there was no actual rivalry between you.
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Oprah is pitted against Vance's character, just as Sophia's fierceness was juxtaposed with Celie's timidity in The Color Purple.
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The battles Erdrich's grandfather fought and the legislation pitted against Native tribes are not a thing of the past.
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Its sales tumbled as Forever 21 was pitted against heightened competition from rivals such as H&M and Zara.
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Is there any common ground between these two demographics who, rivaling in size, are so often pitted against one another?
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She and Kerrigan were pitted against one another in the press, and, to this day, they're still seen as competitors.
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Once again, the Beatles and the Stones will be pitted against each other — only this time on the high seas.
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They have been pitted against logging and palm oil companies keen to tap the forested areas in which they live.
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Each day, two bears are pitted against one another and the bear voted fattest moves on to the next round.
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Elsewhere in 80s television, women were pitted against one another in the Aaron Spelling-choreographed queen-bitch knockdowns of Dynasty.
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Pitted against the slower GTX 1070 (both desktop and mobile versions) and you'll see frame rates drop by 10-20fps.
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It must be exhausting to be pitted against your own family — especially if you get along with them just fine.
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In this talk, his strong will is pitted against that of another haughty New Yorker, the master builder Robert Moses.
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His protagonists are often pitted against overwhelming bureaucracies, inhabiting a nightmarish world that was the model for the term "Kafkaesque".
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That format means teachers or courses are pitted against each other in a sense, vying for students' attention and money.
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Pitted against the reality of demographics — specifically, the aging-out of riders — are ambitious safety training programs for young riders.
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Heitkamp is pitted against Representative Kevin Cramer, who called the Kavanaugh controversy "even more absurd" than the Anita Hill case.
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When pitted against other past presidents since World War II, Obama's clearly the most popular among potential Democratic primary voters.
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And when Trump is pitted against ABC/CBS/NBC, the networks were judged more trustworthy by an 11-point margin.
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After all, here was a small, late-moving upstart pitted against a bundle-friendly giant that owned the operating system.
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Some of Uber's investors want to push out a venture capital firm that's been pitted against former CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Under Kalanick, Uber had a "Hobbesian environment where workers are pitted against one another," according to The New York Times.
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However, their relentless pursuit of dramatic narratives where one side is pitted against the other simply serves to deepen mistrust.
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Still, they'll be pitted against whichever squad wins the Pac-12 title for a slot in the College Football Playoff.
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Those conflicting forces – strong business conditions pitted against fears over trade – were reflected in the group's broad economic outlook index.
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On a 10-meter-high diving board, fear of taking the plunge is pitted against the fear of missing out.
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China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial to global trade.
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This toxicity steals power from the film's most powerful scenes, where Elizabeth and Mary are actually directly pitted against each other.
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But it also found that five other Democratic contenders – every one the poll pitted against Trump – leading the president as well.
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Much of the competition is for lower-priced houses, which means retirees looking to downsize are pitted against first-time homebuyers.
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I sat down and worked on my screenplay about a couple pitted against nature and nature is played by a bear.
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Gross, likely untrue (they hadn't even met yet!) but pretty unsurprising, given the way women are often pitted against each other.
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Kristen Stewart's upcoming supernatural thriller Personal Shopper has her pitted against the real world and what may lie beyond unseen borders.
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An overlooked provision in the GOP tax cuts from 2017 has the religious wings of both parties pitted against one another.
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Minnows are pitted against whales, which means people around the world have found themselves cheering for Iceland for the first time.
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Barcelona were pitted against Italian champions Juventus in a repeat of the 2015 final which the Spanish side won 3-1.
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When white workers in Ohio are pitted against black workers in North Carolina, or Latino workers in Florida, who really benefits?
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Refreshingly, the women in these shows are mostly looking after one another rather than pitted against one another, competing for men.
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Victory against Japan could see Murray pitted against ATP Tour rival and world number one Novak Djokovic should Serbia also advance.
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Hall's DNA test evoked another ugly memory from slavery, when lighter "house Negroes" were pitted against darker "field Negroes," he says.
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And Northern Kentucky—who did make it—is facing an interesting situation, pitted against in-state rivals No 2 seed Kentucky.
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The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, described "red team" hackers who were pitted against cyberdefenders at the Pentagon.
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But the additional choices may end up splitting the vote in those main categories, where genres are pitted against one another.
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In "An Ideal Husband," accommodation and even forgiveness are pitted against rigid morality in a series of deliciously contrived dramatic conflicts.
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Then there's the question of whether Manchin really wants to compete in a second consecutive grueling campaign pitted against the president.
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A powerful fringe movement is pitted against venerable left-wing media and any liberal who dares to critique the new president.
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The AI was trained on two datasets of mammogram scans from the US and the UK, then pitted against six radiologists.
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Her word will be pitted against his, forcing senators — and a nation judging from the sidelines — to decide whom to believe.
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This year, he's pitted against Barry's Bill Hader, The Politician's Ben Platt, Living with Yourself's Paul Rudd and Ramy's Ramy Youssef.
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Both sleep and exercise are key components of a healthy lifestyle and shouldn't be pitted against each other, Dr. Czeisler said.
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For the most part, Betty and Veronica are in competition, two women pitted against one another in the tribunal of high school.
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The half a dozen bulls which take part in the run are later pitted against a matador in the city's bull ring.
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I hate to see women pitted against one another as much as the next feminist, but this is bound to be good.
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There are also two amendments aimed at keeping guns away from suspected terrorists pitted against each other — a Democratic proposal from Sen.
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We look to unity and we seek to build bridges that can transcend the pattern of marginalized communities pitted against each other.
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There, American online superstars such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are pitted against a Chinese dream team led by Alibaba and Tencent.
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They are pitted against a more mainstream faction that favors building bridges with other churches and lending political support to the government.
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Make no mistake, the U.S. is pitted against China in the race to tech supremacy and 5G is integral to that future.
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Rival factions within the administration are pitted against one another as President Trump closes in on a decision expected later this month.
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As women, we are many times pitted against one another and sold the idea that our relevance is in our individual selves.
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But when the two were pitted against each other in a recent Public Policy Polling survey, the race was a dead heat.
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I was a bit of an insufferable princess, but in such cultures, women are often pitted against each other in this way.
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So it was that a contest unfolded: three teams of engineers pitted against one another to adapt facial recognition programs to piglets.
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The fighting in northeastern Syria has now pitted against each other two forces that have played very different roles in Syria's war.
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The final saw Griffin pitted against Stephan Bonnar and it was a fight which certainly drew plenty of attention to both men.
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Here the Tuareg are pitted against former neighbors in a proxy battle for assets and power, backed by government and international interests.
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But in a world in which growing populations with endless consumer demands are pitted against a fragile environment, we require more concerted effort.
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The more integrated approach also means buyer and supplier are not pitted against each other, squabbling over when the cash will be forthcoming.
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If Ms Le Pen is pitted against François Fillon, a Thatcherite conservative, in the second round, left-wing voters might stay at home.
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Although they're occasionally pitted against each other by other people (Kanye West, the Grammys), for the most part, they've avoided any direct competition.
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As it turns out, the executive is remarkably well equipped to defend itself against investigation, even when pitted against a dogged independent prosecutor.
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Supporters of Rouhani, who promoted the nuclear deal, were pitted against hardliners close to Khamenei, who are wary of detente with Western countries.
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It will be pitted against rivals offering reliable connecting services via their hubs in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.
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For a long time, many of us didn't even stop to consider why the famous '90s boy bands were pitted against one another.
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When the Apple App Store is pitted against Google Play alone, Apple is expected to maintain its lead through 2021, the report says.
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What remains to be seen is whether Sanders and Warren break their detente, or whether they end up pitted against some thirsty centrists.
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The civil war in Syria is nearing its five-year mark, with the brutal regime of President Bashar al-Assad pitted against rebels.
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Available in 14 colors, Casper's Cool Supima Duvet Cover skew toward pricey, but it's competitively priced when pitted against other high-quality sheets.
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But when the two were pitted against each other in a Public Policy Polling survey last week, the race was a dead heat.
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Considering Dos Santos as an opponent for the American, there were a lot of mixed reactions to 'Cigano' being pitted against 'Big Ben'.
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And Frankenstein's monster looks a little bit more cuddly pitted against the duo, while also still managing to tower high above the others.
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They were pitted against every other distraction in the mediasphere, every other shiny enticement and new outrage offering a reason to tune out.
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A Word With Once again, the women of "Big Little Lies" will be pitted against one another, this time at the Emmy Awards.
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Hospitals and doctors are pitted against patient data advocates in a strident debate over HHS plans to facilitate data sharing with software companies.
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Specifically, able-bodied adults are now pitted against traditional Medicaid populations – seniors, poor children and individuals with disabilities – to compete for limited resources.
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"Yes, (the women) are pitted against each other in the beginning but yet they do ultimately unite, and they are real," she added.
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We're in a time of identity-first culture, a time in which those identities are being pitted against one another for political sport.
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This video comes at a time when women are pitted against each other more than ever in the music industry, igniting feuds across genres.
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It's no secret that women have long been pitted against one another, and often, it's what these women represent that are truly at odds.
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As if it wasn't bad enough that the two women were already pitted against one another by the show's producers, now Colton is participating.
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Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week contest is now underway, with 13 very large omnivores pitted against each other in a playoff-like bracket.
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In today's oral arguments at the PTO, the University of California, Berkeley and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier are pitted against the Broad Institute and MIT.
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Being pitted against James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess in a dance-off for immunity made Ryan and I look at the competition completely differently.
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The country's sectarian political system means rival parties from the same sect are often pitted against each other in competition for the same seats.
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Pitted against Thaksin and his allies is the royalist and military establishment which accused him of nepotism and abuse of power, accusations he denied.
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But by degrading women in his own life, Walcott falls into an intersectional trap, forcing one claim of liberty to be pitted against another.
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When two mostly evenly matched opponents like that are pitted against each other, it makes sense that the debates wouldn't make a gigantic impact.
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But when the two were pitted against one another in a Public Policy Polling survey from last week, the race is a dead heat.
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Today, watching the blood-soaked popular conception of Islam and Muslims get pitted against Western ideas of gay identity and gay people feels strange.
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For the sake of the demo, it was me and a handful of human players pitted against a whole bunch of less-sophisticated bots.
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That means Asian-Americans and underrepresented minorities — Latinos, Native Americans and African-Americans — are pitted against one another for coveted spots at elite schools.
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The system is rigged, Ms. Warren said, but it's particularly pitted against minority communities — and politicians must recognize those unique challenges and address them.
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For the women's singles match, one first-to-five-game set, Osaka was pitted against Taylor Townsend, an American ranked 44 places below her.
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This uncomfortable dynamic, in which two minorities are pitted against each other, was particularly on display during the Harvard affirmative action lawsuit this year.
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President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah are pitted against each other once again, five years after the last election ended without a clear result.
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Ms. Wright plays Jessie, a factory worker in Reading, Pa., who finds herself pitted against her friends as jobs become scarce and society crumbles.
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But when the two were pitted against each other in a Public Policy Polling survey from last week, the race was a dead heat.
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He did, however, appear in a bizarre two-on-two submission match under the Rizin banner, which saw him pitted against Kazushi Sakuraba once again.
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Is it any great coincidence that the first African-American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, was pitted against Jim Jeffries, then called "The Great White Hope" ?
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It's a weird relationship to consider, but such is the bizarro world of pro sports, in which millionaire employees are often pitted against billionaire owners.
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Zellner is once again pitted against Drizin and Nirider in an interview with Brendan's mother Barb, who concedes that, yes, Zellner is a good lawyer.
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But the S9 can best it in some circumstances, which is significant improvement over where Samsung stood in 2017 when pitted against the original Pixel.
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The county can be viewed as a microcosm of a tension all too common across the United States: public natural resources pitted against private profit.
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Kimberly and Keaton went on CBS' This Morning to talk about the difficulties of a video going so popular and the allegations pitted against them.
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The delay is a blow to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who had been pitted against the pay-television industry in a fight over the reforms.
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But just reading the story and seeing the story of these women — it was fascinating seeing the different castes of women pitted against each other.
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Najib is engulfed in a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal and is pitted against his old mentor and the country's most seasoned campaigner Mahathir Mohamad.
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He even held his own during CNBC's financial version of the game show, in which he was pitted against CNBC senior markets commentator Michael Santoli.
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Moh's Lee and Brad Pitt's character, stuntman Cliff Booth, are pitted against one another in a scene that Shannon Lee had previously taken issue with.
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Industry groups are jockeying over the legislation to ensure they do not take a huge financial hit, with insurance companies pitted against hospitals and doctors.
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The 15-member Security Council has been split over how to deal with the crisis, with western powers pitted against Russia and Myanmar ally China.
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Lichtblau: He'll almost certainly testify, and it should be one for the history books: Newly exiled FBI director pitted against the president who fired him.
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You know, if you ask them, they feel the way I felt, like they're isolated and pitted against each other and told to be hotter.
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It's about the evils of capitalism at a very surface level, and how he's pitted against a good, honest cop who wants to bust him.
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What will remain exceptional is a culture and policy posture that labors under a dangerous black-and-white assumption where privacy is pitted against security.
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Middle-class women, who championed the amendment, were pitted against the working-class ones who feared it would erode special legislative protections for female laborers.
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A murderous, decades-long struggle ensued in which the competing European powers were pitted against one another, as well as the people of the Moluccas.
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It's also a clash of cultures and of differing visions of capitalism: Anglo-Saxon profit maximization pitted against Germany's long-term focused social market economy model.
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" Swift shared a similar sentiment last month, telling BBC Radio 1 that she and Perry had "grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other.
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A single vegetable's effectiveness is questionable when pitted against the latest "riot dispersal means" deployed by one of the best-equipped armies in the Middle East.
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The 15-member council has long been divided on how to end the war, with Russia - backed by China - pitted against the United States, France, Britain.
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And after decades of being pitted against one another, people across Lebanon's confessional divide appear to have now banded together to rise up against sectarian overlords.
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Bieber and Mendes have historically been pitted against each other; they're both Canadian pop stars who rose to fame via the internet (Bieber, Youtube; Mendes, Vine).
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It seems to be okay with PS4 players who are being pitted against PC or mobile gamers, but not anyone using an Xbox One or Switch.
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" Swift shared a similar sentiment in June, telling BBC Radio 1 that she and Perry had "grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other.
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This is unfortunate for Robbie, but likely good for the movie, which is a dark tale about two cousins pitted against one another for England's throne.
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Ultimately, she told Daily Telegraph's Stellar that her quick spat with Kim K taught her that she doesn't want to find herself pitted against other women.
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So when I look at Syria today and see neighbor pitted against neighbor I am reminded of Bosnia, of barricades, snipers, front lines and wasted lives.
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So it didn't make full sense that they were being pitted against us, but you're the same age, you're both in bands and wear skinny jeans!
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Yemen itself is riven by a two-year civil war in which forces loyal to the Saudi-backed government are pitted against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
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An NVIDIA GTX 1080's performance, pitted against other Pascal NVIDIA graphics processor is uncontested, unless you opt for the astronomically expensive TITAN X GPU ($1,200).
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Since Mr. Thompson is one of the most commanding classical actors around, you would think that any performer pitted against him would be doomed to defeat.
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It is a kind of staring competition between women, in which the strength of female honesty and indignation is pitted against the force of feminine illusion.
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PULTE FOUNDER PITTED AGAINST THE BOARD | William J. Pulte, the founder and largest shareholder of the Pulte Group, is locked in a battle with the management.
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Pitted against these realities, and polls showing public resistance, are warnings from GOP leaders and donors that failure on tax cuts guarantees calamity in 2018 elections.
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Politics rarely ruffles the surface; private virtues must be pitted against social inequality, while getting on in the world through self-reliance is no bad thing.
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But when the Second Amendment is pitted against the First Amendment, we have to recognize that our country is facing a challenge of a different magnitude.
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That highlights the escalating war for talent as more jobs go to big tech and banks have become increasingly pitted against PE firms for junior hires.
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The overall effect of these reds and blues and greens, all pitted against a range of grays that signal "internet-neutral," is discomfiting in the extreme.
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The second test involved matches featuring two poker legends, Darren Elia and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, each of whom was pitted against five identical copies of Pluribus.
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The program relies on a generative adversarial network (GAN), meaning there are two types of algorithms pitted against each other as adversaries to create its portraits.
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These types of networks essentially consist of two neural networks, a type of computing architecture modeled after the human brain, that are pitted against each other.
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Rangers — including people who were previously pitted against one another in the civil war — were recruited and trained to reduce poaching and look after the animals.
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Pitted against six expert radiologists, when no prior scan was available, the deep learning model beat the doctors: It had fewer false positives and false negatives.
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She is a regular guest on nightly news shows in Britain, where she is pitted against proponents of Brexit or skeptics of a market-savvy state.
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Modern Italy, he asserted, was forged in bitter conflict, with elites pitted against elites, church against state, north against south, and the great powers pulling strings.
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In high school movies made as recently as a dozen years ago — and going back decades — these characters would be siloed and pitted against one another.
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I think that the one thing I feel is misrepresented in media... A lot of times, women are pitted against one another as some form of entertainment.
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Currently, our real-world AI are only pseudo-AI, and they are woefully inadequate when pitted against the powerful, dynamic forces of human creativity at its worst.
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It's also refreshing to see Gomez celebrating a Cyrus song, considering these two ladies have been pitted against one another time and time again by the media.
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This unusual committee, which includes people whose cars lost value due to the recall, will be pitted against Honda Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp, and other automakers.
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This unusual committee, which includes people whose cars lost value due to the recall, will be pitted against Honda Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp , and other automakers.
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For months on end, half of this country was pitted against the other in a presidential campaign the nastiness of which surpassed all others in recent memory.
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And on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton gets criticized for raising her voice in public when she's pitted against a guy who works only in mega-decibels.
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Ron Howard reimagines the wreck of the whaling ship Essex, which inspired Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," as its first mate (Chris Hemsworth) is pitted against the leviathan.
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In some areas, "establishment or corporate" Dems are pitted against the "hard left" or more progressive wing ignited during the run up to the 2016 general election.
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Waltz, although captivating while playing the villain in other films, doesn't exude the same fearsome quality when pitted against Craig's taller, stronger, and more physically menacing Bond.
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In simulated two-hour battles in Baghdad, human teams were pitted against either RAID or other humans; they could tell them apart less than half the time.
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Among Asian elephants, a related species, many males are tuskless, and recent studies suggest they fare surprisingly well on the sexual battlefield when pitted against tusked rivals.
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The tribe split into factions, with Esteves and others at Furnace Creek pitted against a larger group, based in Bishop, at the northern end of Owens Valley.
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She found that it&aposs not necessarily the competition itself that makes us better, it&aposs being pitted against people who are on or above our level.
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With a target for house-building imposed on the council by the government, villagers and townies end up pitted against each other, trying to shove development elsewhere.
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Accompanied by poker stars Dong Kim, Jimmy Chou, and Daniel McAuley, Les will be pitted against an artificial intelligence program developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, a nerdy scientist, who when pitted against Doctor Doom and his robot army could spool out into any length and shape!
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Cormier was instead pitted against former middleweight champ Anderson Silva, widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in the sport, who stepped in with two days' notice.
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She has been portrayed as everything from a mean boss to a greedy social climber and pitted against her sister-in-law Kate Middleton in a sexist feud.
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The two groups of scientists involved, each contributing significantly to the future of genetic engineering, are pitted against each other in a bitter contest for glory and fortune.
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Image: Flickr/micahb37UC Berkeley and the Broad Institute are pitted against each other in a bitter contest for the glory and fortune attached to the invention of CRISPR.
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Chris Pratt can't shake being pitted against the three other white men named Chris (Evans, Hemsworth, and Pine) who happen to be in the same profession as him.
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I used to think I was good at Tetris, but that was before I was pitted against 98 other players in a block-dropping battle to the death.
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Supporters of Rouhani, who championed the nuclear deal, were pitted against hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, who are deeply wary of detente with Western countries.
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Republican candidate Ron DeSantis, an Iraq veteran and close Trump ally, is pitted against Democrat Andrew Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee and a progressive who's called for Trump's impeachment.
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In the months-long fight he has recently pitted against the investor, his 33 percent stake in Faraday Future is the only thing keeping Evergrande from taking control.
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The dynamic of the 2016 GOP primary, with authoritarians pitted against establishment-inclined Republicans, could play out first in Congressional elections, and then in the halls of Congress.
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These days, it seems that Meghan and Kate are constantly pitted against one another by the tabloids, who can't fathom two strong, successful women within one famous family.
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During Sunday night's episode of the Ryan Murphy series, Sarandon took to Twitter to recount an instance of women being pitted against each other from her own career.
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Echoing the battle in the Republican Party at large, establishment figures like George Will are pitted against insurgent conservatives, who relish the chance to punch at Beltway Republicans.
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The winner will inevitably be pitted against a healthy Robert Whittaker for the actual middleweight title, but even the loser will be in position for great match ups.
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If you're unlucky enough to be a (metaphorical) shrimp pitted against (non-metaphorical) tuna, then you might have to get a bit creative when it comes to mating.
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Study after study shows that healthy organizations — where employees feel valued and love coming to work — typically outperform companies where employees feel replaceable and pitted against each other.
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Particularly interesting is the final act, which largely consists of a long duet for the Demon and Tamara, in which her prized virtue is pitted against his salvation.
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Though rap may be a male-dominated arena where women are pitted against each other for an imaginary single top stop, tonight was all about showing fierce support.
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Pitted against the passions and prejudices that the president can tap into when he talks about banning Muslims, or of Latino gangs destroying the country, anti-racism is overpowered.
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He's pitted against those who'll stop at nothing to protect its secrets — and the mysterious Vera (Coon) who proves to be a complicated, enigmatic piece to this haunting puzzle.
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" It's for that exact reason Brunetti said he believes that if pitted against Trump or Clinton for the presidency of the United States, Underwood would "win by a mile.
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Those who give up trying to meet the new rules may then look beyond North America for car parts, as Mexican ones would be pitted against those from Asia.
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They sneaked into the playoffs with a 9-7 record at the end of the 2011 season and were once again pitted against the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
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While Brady may have bested Manning during their rivalry, the two are still pitted against each other in debates of who is considered the best quarterback of all-time.
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Emmanuel Macron was often called the "modern" choice among the candidates in the first round, and in the second round again, now that he's pitted against Marine Le Pen.
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Anderson's lonely rebels are pitted against government-stirred "anti-dog" hysteria in a Manichean struggle not unlike the conflict in one of his favorite films from childhood: Star Wars.
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Pitted against it in District Court in Providence was the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, Shearith Israel of New York, which predates the synagogue by a century.
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During the colonial era, ethnic tensions were exacerbated by the British practice of indirect rule, in which traditional leaders were pitted against one another for resources and political power.
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Many of the emblems of identity seem to recur, built on the notion of an island nation pitted against superior forces, fighting against the odds, swimming against history's tide.
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For Loach, as for Chaplin, the basic format, recurring from film to film, is that of the decent individual pitted against the system and gradually compressed by its machinations.
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Entire sections of fans were even pitted against each other in a race to unfurl Overwatch banners — a competition similar to what you might find at an NBA game.
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At best, we've gotten glimpses of how the sausage is made, (the beauty queen Chantal being pitted against the activist Ruby as a microcosm of respectability politics, for example).
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And Murphy is pitted against her own son, Avery (Jake McDorman), starting a show in the same time slot on the conservative Wolf Network (filling in for another canid).
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It was a showdown between two realms of live entertainment: Stars from Broadway were pitted against stars from drag at the Lip Sync Roulette at Slate NYC in Chelsea.
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More than a dozen students and staff members told The Times of pupils being humiliated in front of their peers and of racial groups being pitted against one another.
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But her friends, she said, at companies with a more skewed gender dynamic in higher positions, find themselves pitted against other women in a detrimental way when seeking promotions.
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The chief financial officer of car maker Fiat until 2005, Gubitosi is pitted against Alfredo Altavilla, who until recently was also a top manager at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCHA.MI).
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" In July, Anna Farris told The Hollywood Reportershe wanted to start monthly brunches so that actresses might get to know one another "instead of ... being pitted against one another.
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Well, the impact is that not only are people pitted against each other, not only do people ... If you look at it, there's the same number of liberals and conservatives.
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While at the VMA awards, Cardi B was asked in an interview with Billboard about being pitted against Minaj, and said: I mean, I don't really want problems with anybody.
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And like Richard, he finds himself pitted against a usurping Bolingbroke, who understands that for the monarchy to survive, it has to accommodate changing times and the juggernaut of realpolitik.
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These children find themselves pitted against a conservative government that wants to consign this period — its perpetrators and its victims — to history, arguing that the country needs to move on.
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Blood feuds were cycles of violence where families were pitted against other families and eventually established cultural divisions—like mob families or the Montagues and Capulets in "Romeo and Juliet".
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In GANs, two neural nets are pitted against one another: One neural net generates new images and tries to trick the other neural net into thinking the images are real.
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In the semifinals, Williams could then be pitted against third-seeded Angelique Kerber, who won her first Grand Slam title in January by beating Williams in the Australian Open final.
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When Neni starts working for Cindy Edwards at the family's vacation house in the Hamptons, the conceit is ripe — the Jongas of Harlem pitted against the Edwardses of the Hamptons.
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So Styles was paired with Shane McMahon in an inversion of the old Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Vince McMahon storylines: the virtuous boss pitted against an arrogant, heelish employee.
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I took up Pilates and weightlifting because I loved (slowly) learning the exercises involved and I liked working next to people without being pitted against them like in team sports.
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But this moment is so powerful because we're seeing … collaboration between these two worlds that people don't usually put together and would most likely have us pitted against each other.
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In these unprecedented times, individual liberties are at odds with the well-being of our species, and for most people, old and young, our present is pitted against our future.
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There's an allegorical and political weight to the show's premise, with two populations that literally had everything in common being pitted against each other because of an accident of history.
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I cannot and will not sit by while American Jews and Muslims are pitted against each other by the people who bear a significant responsibility for both of their plights.
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A Republican governor and airline companies were pitted against Democratic officials and labor leaders over how much to pay workers who clean planes, load luggage and perform many other duties.
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In an ordinary election, with a generic Democrat pitted against a generic Republican, a major figure in the virtual reality scene having a preference might not have gained much traction.
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I've been the subject of "only one girl" thinking my entire life, and, consciously or not, pitted against other women for social status time and again in male-dominated groups.
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The work here doesn't exist as a response to Lemonade, nor does it need to be pitted against Lemonade; but without the challenge of one album, the other doesn't exist.
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He is favoured to win the second round, and could claim the presidency next year if he is pitted against Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front.
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Speaking of Juliet and her Romeo, the central characters of "The Night Circus," Celia and her Marco, are pitted against each other in a magical duel, but ultimately fall in love.
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" Swift shared a similar sentiment about her reconciliation with Perry in June, telling BBC Radio 1 that she and Perry had "grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other.
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Four cars can be pitted against each other on this $20 fold-up track, but only one will end up blasting past the finish line, triggering a pop-up checker flag.
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It's a place where we kind of have come together in Nashville, and even across the country, where women are saying, 'We know that forever we've been pitted against each other.
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In terms of what forecasting advances might come next, Joseph tells Axios that she would like to see "longitudinal tournaments," in which subject matter experts are pitted against generalist elite forecasters.
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China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
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Pitted against hometown favorite Niklas Backstrom, who was coming off his stunning debut win over Tom Niinimaki, the majority of people forecast the Swede to take the victory against the Brit.
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In the runoff on May 7, both Fillon and Macron were seen winning if either was pitted against Le Pen, while Macron would beat Fillon in the knockout, the poll added.
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Swift won the award for best tour after she had already nabbed the trophy for female artist of the year – where she was pitted against bestie Selena Gomez, Adele and others.
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I attended her "Rachael Ray" appearance, where she was pitted against the show's in-house organizer, Peter Walsh, in what must have been the modern talk show's least fair fight ever.
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That highlights the escalating war for talent in the financial sector as more jobs go to big tech and banks have become increasingly pitted against private-equity firms for junior hires.
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After all, HBO and major streaming services sort of have a lock on battle violence and on-screen sex, so why enter the fray pitted against giants like Game of Thrones?
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But now that the primaries are over and she's about to be pitted against Trump, Sanders has every right to suspect that she'll be inclined to move to the squishy middle.
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As a member of Homeland Security, that's what scares me most, that Americans will be pitted against Americans over real differences, but that are minimal in the grand scheme of things.
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The trouble with this solution was that foster parents were prompted from the start to form attachments to the children, and their hopes were pitted against those of the biological parents.
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The Battle of the Bastards was even less complex: The Good Starks were pitted against Evil Ramsay, a character so simplistically drawn he makes Lord Voldemort seem like he contains multitudes.
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One of the biggest differences between Airbnb and Lyric is that Lyric is more of a premium hotel operator, putting the latter in lockstep with landlords rather than pitted against them.
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Meanwhile, at the PS2000 performance, which was originally part of the American Realness festival, the artistic right to transgression was pitted against Native American beliefs and values in a false opposition.
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Expect to see Puck of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" pitted against Ariel of "The Tempest," along with appearances by such disparate characters as Hamlet, Lady Macbeth and one Dromio and Juliet.
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In the media, and particularly in the South, they have often found themselves pitted against each other, an opposition born of the culture wars and of the region's catastrophic racial history.
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More or less pitted against one another, the victims and their relatives were forced to come to court to tell their stories, reliving an experience that many were still recovering from.
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When one sporting publisher realized that "hunting stories — hunters pitted against elusive, dangerous animals in forbidding terrain — possessed unique narrative power," as Dray writes, the hook-and-bullet genre was born.
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The naming conventions of the legal system mean that Simon Shiao Tam is being pitted against Michelle Lee, the first Asian-American director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Delegates are awarded proportionally in the Democratic primaries, so Sanders, who hits forty per cent in most national polls when pitted against Clinton, can win many delegates even while losing states.
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It hasn't boosted him in the polls, but there's no better opportunity for O'Rourke to get a second look than to be pitted against the top contenders in his home state.
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The ruling comes months after a closely fought election that saw progressives pitted against Islamic hardliners and worries over increased involvement by Islamic groups in politics were brought to the fore.
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As a result, taxi drivers and owners have found themselves pitted against state officials, business leaders and transit advocates who see the new fees as crucial to the city's transit system.
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This will be the first time they are pitted against each other onstage without Martin O'Malley, who dropped out of the race after a poor performance in the Iowa caucuses Monday.
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Taking the stage here, Trump then suggested that the polling location's extended closing time to allow voters to cast their ballots is a sign of a "rigged system" pitted against his campaign.
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Stone said in a Facebook post last week that she is friends with Madonna, adding: "I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you by any invasion of our personal journeys."
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Still, in the twin roles of Jack and Jill, we see the extremes of Sandler's humming frustration: the quiet corner-mouth cynicism of Jack, pitted against Jill's spastic and screeching dick jokes.
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" Although the two girls were pitted against each other on the show during dance competitions, Chloe says the rivalry was "never really an issue" and they "stayed friends throughout that whole thing.
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AIBA has been riven with in-fighting for months, with Taiwan's Wu pitted against most of the executive committee who failed to remove him through a vote of no confidence in July.
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But it nevertheless still causes that transactional truce to drop, and nazis and punks are once again pitted against each other; with the former stopping at nothing until the latter are exterminated.
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That's what researchers from Iraq and Australia found during test scenarios with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional remote-controlled drone pitted against a human-driven ambulance vehicle in a busy Iraqi city.
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While it's crucial to recognize harassment as a labor issue, doing so doesn't necessarily tell you how to solve it, especially when the interests of some union members are pitted against others.
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But there are painful, interlocking identity crises roiling, with young pitted against old and long-simmering resentments against leaders who haven't recognized the pain of globalization or the yearning for national exceptionalism.
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That puts China at a disadvantage should its warplanes be pitted against U.S. jet fighters or those from security ally Japan in Asia's disputed waters, the industry sources and security experts said.
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Now on Blu-ray, it stars John Forsyth as a crusading journalist pitted against the forces of organized crime and features a cameo appearance by the mob-battling Senator Estes Kefauver himself.
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The 15-member Security Council, which visited Myanmar's Rakhine state last year, has been deadlocked with Myanmar allies China and Russia pitted against western states over how to deal with the situation.
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Shrimp toast, one of those foods that are likable even when they're bad, is exceptionally good at Public Kitchen, where the crunch of water chestnuts is pitted against tender, unusually sweet shrimp.
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Armin Laschet, governor of North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the conservative Christian Democrats, condemned the song as an unacceptable manipulation of young people, who were being pitted against older generations.
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For the second consecutive start, Severino was pitted against a former Cy Young Award winner in peak form, and it was hard to tell who owned the hardware and who did not.
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The characters and specific storylines rotate, but the theme -- staffers pitted against each other yo-yoed in and out of favor by the mercurial boss in the Oval Office -- stays the same.
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The Miramax insurgency peaked in 19973, the year that "Shakespeare in Love" was pitted against "Saving Private Ryan"—a contest recalled by both sides as if it were the Spanish Civil War.
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"The Morning Show" shuffles these dynamics: Because Corky types reign on morning television, the experienced soft news host Alex is pitted against Mitch's replacement, the tough but naïve Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon).
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Pentagon Pushes for Weaker Standards on Chemicals Contaminating Drinking Water: The Defense Department is pitted against the E.P.A. in a dispute over how aggressively to clean up contaminated sites, including military bases.
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Having dispatched Croatia in the semi-finals – though not before some gamesmanship from Slaven Bilic had made sure Blanc would miss the final through suspension – France were pitted against the majesty of Brazil.
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In the runoff to be held on May 7, both Fillon, a conservative, and Macron were seen winning if either was pitted against Le Pen, while Macron would beat Fillon in the knockout.
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Richard Caird, a partner at Dentons, a global law firm, notes that a foreign company can expect an impartial decision in an English court, even if it is pitted against a British firm.
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Video courtesy the Marin Shakespeare Company Those ties can be critical in an environment where prisoners are often pitted against each other within the deeply ingrained racial and cultural divides of prison society.
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For several decades after World War II, the Olympics were just another front in the Cold War, in which entire ways of life were pitted against each other to determine which was better.
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As it becomes clear that Olivia is interested in Cesar, the girls are never pitted against one another, nor does either blame the other for her feelings or actions (it's almost too ideal).
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The show went into production in fall of 2016, and while it powerfully depicted women silenced and pitted against one another by patriarchy, it didn't hit you over the head with its relevance.
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It's very clear that I was not thinking about the context of the quote and the two frames that I used and their words and how they were then pitted against each other.
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Arthur Bauer (Lars Ekborg, the male lead in Ingmar Bergman's "Summer With Monika"), plays a self-important but now inconsequential political exile who is pitted against the earnest student radical, Tomas (Gosta Ekman).
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"We want to push back and take ownership of the process and not be pitted against each other," said Ron Kim, a New York assemblyman who leads his state's version of the bill.
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It was then pitted against another deep-learning algorithm which tried to discriminate between the videos that were machine generated and those that were real, a method of training machines called adversarial learning.
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The pair spent their new year's drinking plenty of beers, competing in a "Sam Mitchell Olympics" where they pitted against each other in beer pong and bucket racing, a variation on the sack race.
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But the maltreatment of refugees beginning after the first world war, in Arendt's telling, would suggest that these natural rights are meaningless when pitted against the sovereignty of the states that would host them.
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Polls indicate Fillon, a former prime minister who has The Republicans ticket, is most likely to win if he is pitted against National Front leader Le Pen in a May 7 head-to-head.
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But there was no immediate sign that Moscow would drop its vow to continue its onslaught against those it views as "terrorists" among the range of armed groups pitted against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are no strangers to being pitted against each other, the inaugural American Idol winner, 36, is making it crystal clear that there's no bad blood between the two superstars.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's top food companies and farmers of crops such as beet sugar are pitted against each other as they lobby the U.S. government over plans to label genetically engineered ingredients.
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The cathedral is aligned with Russian Orthodoxy, and part of a church which is widely referred to in Ukraine as the Moscow Patriarchate that is pitted against what is known as the Kiev Patriarchate.
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The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park's paunchiest are pitted against one another.
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In the standard account of this conflict, degrowthers are pitted against leftists and environmentalists of a modernizing bent—a broad spectrum encompassing pro-growth Green New Dealers, automation-loving "luxury communists," and techno-futurists.
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" Swift shared a similar sentiment about her reconciliation with Perry in June, telling BBC Radio 1 that she and her fellow pop star had "grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other.
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There is definitely an opening to talk about who the best rapper is, why the hip-hop industry needs to make more room for female MCs, and how Black women are pitted against one another.
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The Swiss-based organization has been riven with in-fighting for months, with Wu pitted against most of the executive committee who failed to remove him through a vote of no confidence tabled in July.
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In a nine-year battle to win the rights to operate the green domain, Malthouse and co-founder Trevor Bowden were pitted against contenders such as former US Vice President and Presidential Candidate Al Gore.
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The four women were pitted against one another quite often in the main event of shows across the United States, with Johnson usually coming out on top in either singles matches or tag-team matches.
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But I'm disappointed that they're pitted against a female rock band because it's already hard as hell to get girls into rock bands (and even harder to for them to get credit for their contributions).
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In general, a woman who talks about sex when she's a contestant is seen as a temptress or portrayed as a villain, or at the very least, she's pitted against another girl on the show.
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Fans of Game of Thrones, Pretty Little Liars, and The Walking Dead finally got their chance to vote for their favorite villains and heroes, who will be pitted against nominees from the year's top movies.
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Islamist militants have gained territory and freedom to operate thanks to a war raging for over a year in which government forces have been pitted against Iran-allied Houthi rebels who control the capital Sanaa.
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When freeing their companion was pitted against accessing chocolate in a second restrainer, the rats would open both restrainers and typically shared the chocolate, according to that study, published in the journal Science in 2011.
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Ever since the Taycan was first touted as a concept car, known then as the Mission E, it's been pitted against Tesla, currently the dominant all-electric automaker, with 2018 sales of nearly 250,000 vehicles.
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She's never quite been the villain, but was pitted against the season 19 villain during a now infamous two-on-one date, and pictured as the crying roadblock in many a Bachelor in Paradise relationship.
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Before the explosive women's singles final of the U.S. Open, which saw Serena Williams pitted against an umpire she described as sexist as well as the winner Naomi Osaka, tennis was already in an uproar.
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Us, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization focused on passing anti-corruption laws across the nation, drafted the initiative; it is now pitted against Americans For Prosperity, a conservative group financed by the Koch brothers. Represent.
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So you have the brains and resources of every one from geniuses like Priestley and Pasteur to modern big business combines like ICI and Du Pont, pitted against the wits of one poor African lion.
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This is a movie about a woman coming up against many forms of patriarchal systems that are pitted against her, and breaking down those walls and deciding that she's going to craft her own story.
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In the hearts-of-palm salad, sweet and sour are carefully pitted against each other by means of a mango vinaigrette, a lime-and-fish-sauce dressing and a neon coat of passion-fruit pulp.
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China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in the South China Sea that is crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
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She's is trailing by between 20 percent and 30 percent in the polls when pitted against Emmanuel Macron, who is also expected to make it through to the second election, which takes place on May 7.
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The accord, brokered by Algeria in 2015, was meant to draw a line under a separatist conflict that has destabilized Mali, with nomadic Tuaregs in the desert north pitted against a government seated in the south.
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Perhaps sensing that Apple is hot on its heels, Amazon can count on the Fire TV Recast as a differentiator when pitted against whatever Apple does with its TV app and third-party "channels" in 2019.
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The comments from pros who play against Pluribus are reminiscent of the comments from Go players who pitted against Google's AlphaGo AI, some of which said that the AI made very different choices from human players.
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In a country where copyright laws are not always strictly enforced, celebrities looking to build a brand in China will often find themselves pitted against "meme entrepreneurs" who react to the latest trends for a living.
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China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes in the South China Sea over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
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The two rappers started as peers in the scene, but then became pitted against each other in an East Coast versus West Coast battle royale that would, in a way, cost each of them their lives.
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It could be an unparalleled matchup with historic implications: the only time in any Olympics that Vonn and Shiffrin, two of skiing's greatest racers, are likely to be pitted against each other in the same event.
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In an age when different kinds of women are so often pitted against one another, it's refreshing — downright moving, even — to witness the Derby fliers unite into a fierce sisterhood that reaches the pinnacle of sportsmanship.
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"You can have an endless number of mediocre and less than mediocre male rappers and they're not pitted against each other in that way," Treva Lindsey, a professor of gender studies at Ohio State University, said.
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In "Him & I," a duet by the rapper G-Eazy and the singer Halsey, their "crazy love" is pitted against a world of haters, drugs and potential infidelity, while G-Eazy's verses keep thinking about death.
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She felt pitted against other women in her relationship, and stopped playing the Paramore smash "Misery Business" live because it was an "ignorant" song about girl-on-girl hatred that "I just don't relate to" anymore.
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Opponents are quick to cite a leaked test report that saw an F-35 pitted against an F-16 in a series of dogfights, and the F-35 got its ass handed to it — a lot.
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FROM PEN: Naomi Watts Talks 26-Year Friendship with Nicole Kidman The two best friends are instantly pitted against each other after they both realize they want to win Ryan's affection — and are willing to do anything.
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The vice-presidential debate was a test of the question: what happens when a centrist Democrat with minimal political baggage is pitted against a fairly conventional, Reagan-quoting Republican from the Christian conservative wing of the party?
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Rouhani, a pragmatist whose moderate allies are pitted against conservative hardliners in the contest, is running for the Assembly of Experts, which has the task of appointing and dismissing the country's most powerful figure, the supreme leader.
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Predictably, the cover and accompanying photographs have become a social media sensation in recent days, unleashing mixed reactions, with those who believe royalty should represent an ideal pitted against those who support the populist, new-look duchess.
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In a country known for decades-long autocratic rule, one former President was pitted against another in court on live TV. Mubarak got his chance to give his version of the events that led to his ouster.
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This alignment grows out of both cultural affinity between Democrats and Google on social issues, and also years of regulatory struggle that often saw Google, Democrats, and consumer groups on one side pitted against telecommunications industry incumbents.
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Every Legend of Zelda game follows the same general structure: a small boy — the world's last hope — is pitted against some sort of super demon named "Ganon" who intends to turn the land into a veritable hellscape.
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He's pitted against dozens of the richest, most secretive, best-organized people in American business — not to mention the president of the United States, who spent last autumn lobbing tweet grenades at N.F.L. players exercising free speech.
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Interviews with more than 30 current and former Uber employees, emails, chat logs and records of meetings reflected an often unrestrained workplace culture that created a Hobbesian environment in which workers were often pitted against one other.
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There's talk of David and Zeke, who were really pitted against each other in the last episode, but would you say Zeke is the most formidable opponent — or would he be a favorite of yours if that's different?
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Crude prices were higher in choppy trading on Friday, with Brent on track to its largest weekly drop in six months, as strong U.S. jobs data and bargain hunting by investors pitted against seasonally weak consumption of oil.
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As such, it is easy to see why it was the weapon of choice to help Afghan forces pitted against well-dug-in IS fighters in a part of the country where the risk to civilians was minimal.
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As documented in a paper published in the journal Science today, the CMU/Facebook collaboration they call Pluribus reliably beats five professional poker players in the same game, or one pro pitted against five independent copies of itself.
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Bush heralded the New World Order and called for the transformation of international relations and economics once the United States and the Soviet Union were no longer pitted against each another in a contest between capitalism and communism.
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We've had to deal a lot with the pipelines and fracking in West Virginia...I can't tell you how many hearings I've been to where people are pitted against each other for clean water and clean, safe jobs.
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The ongoing psychodrama in NJPW is the melodrama in Bullet Club, which seems to be falling apart as a collection of deeply egotistical characters are pitted against the flawless, complicated friendship of Ibushi and Omega, the Golden Lovers.
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When you compare what Sharapova says to reality, it seems clear that being pitted against Williams has helped her benefit from their feud, in the form of lucrative endorsement deals, magazine spreads, and preferential treatment at professional tournaments.
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In 19993, when Moonlight and La La Land emerged as frontrunners for Best Picture, they were promptly pitted against each other not just as films, but as avatars for politics in an America roiling after the 21999 election.
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The decision to accept girls was welcomed by many as yet another milestone for the classic-American outdoor-based youth program, but as a result, the two major Scouting organizations are now pitted against each other in court.
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Murugan's descriptions of village life are evocative, but the true pleasure of this book lies in his adept explorations of male and female relationships, and in his unmistakable affection for people who find themselves pitted against the world.
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This year, with the first female nominee pitted against a man who was practically defined by a tape recording about his girl-grabbing exploits, many people expected that the long-awaited "women's vote" tidal wave would finally arrive.
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KIEV (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that the Minsk peace deal on Ukraine was doomed to fail unless "real security" was restored in eastern Ukraine where government forces are pitted against Russian-backed separatists.
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The vice-presidential debate provided the answer to a very specific question: what happens when a centrist Democrat with minimal political baggage is pitted against a fairly conventional, Reagan-quoting Republican from the Christian conservative wing of the party?
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Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff are pitted against each other in a June 20 run-off election for the traditionally GOP seat, and Republicans are hoping voters will focus on local issues over controversies out of Washington.
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The checks in the system were not limited to three branches — the federal government was pitted against the states and vice versa, and church and state were separated so as not to permit either to completely dominate the other.
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The clash, which left the area littered with shell casings and shattered glass, lasted more than four hours and saw protesters armed with homemade mortars pitted against hooded government loyalists with automatic, high-caliber weapons, reporters with CNN said.
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The war, which ultimately led to the division of the Korean Peninsula, saw communist North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union and later China, pitted against South Korea, backed by the United States and a broader UN-led collation.
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Redgrave addressed the accusations being pitted against the 11 women who have publicly alleged Trump sexually assaulted or harassed them—that they're hungry for fame and money—and said she faced the same thing after pressing charges against Ghomeshi.
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Our nation was so overwhelmed with causes demanding attention and action, she suggested, that it had entered a state of constant emergency, whereby pursuits both personal and political must be pitted against one another to determine which are essential.
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On Wednesday, the Dutch held an election in which the center-right Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, was pitted against Geert Wilders, a right-wing extremist whose oddly constructed blond pompadour is the least baneful of his resemblances to Trump.
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Bloomberg's addition to the stage on Wednesday may have contributed to the surge; television viewers inundated by his campaign ad blitz might have tuned in to see how he would fare in a live setting pitted against his rivals.
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A sense of hope stemming from fuller stomachs, improved education, and strengthened infrastructure pitted against a collateral fear of the inscrutable capitalist machine, the dissolution of traditional ways of life and family structure, the attack of the rising feminists.
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And while Mattis might be on an inevitable collision course, pitted against the irrational views of Michael Flynn and the rest of Trump's coterie, he could be exactly the former Marine who America needs to stand guard in these battles.
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Led by playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson, the Icelandic squad may not be household names but, pitted against Argentina, Nigeria and their old foes Croatia, they will have plenty of opportunities to write their names in the World Cup history books this year.
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However, he says Wagner's intervention had a big impact and "meant the world to Gold" because the women were often pitted against each other in competitions, including the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships.
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However, should he be able to put a stamp on the victory, there will be a lot of fans clamoring to see his aggressive striking pitted against the proponents of the neo-footwork movement at the top of the bracket.
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But the charred ruins of burned huts tell of long-running tensions in the area surrounding Apaa village, northern Uganda, where families who claim the area as ancestral land are pitted against the government, which has declared it a wildlife reserve.
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In yet another, I was given a sort of "armory" of options—a vehicle, armor, and fireflower—and then pitted against three bowsers stacked on top of one another, a clever little nod to RPG mechanics in a simplified Mario package.
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As it stands now, there is a good chance Le Pen will emerge from the first round pitted against one of three candidates: far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, conservative Francois Fillon and centrist Emmanuel Macron, a former economy minister.
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As it was, the defeats triggered a contest for leadership of the Conservative Party, resulting in a government which expects to crash out of the EU without an agreement, pitted against a parliament determined to prevent such a thing happening.
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It follows two characters who are pitted against each other: patent pirate Judith "Jack" Chen, and robotic intellectual property enforcer Paladin, both of whom are trying to stop the spread of a drug that gets users literally addicted to work.
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Just a few minutes into our game of "dowry or no dowry" a few months ago, it was very clear to Srini and me that our personal ideologies and morals were pitted against the fear of letting down the family.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude prices inched up in choppy trading on Friday but Brent notched its largest weekly drop in nearly six months, as strong U.S. jobs data and bargain hunting by investors pitted against seasonally weak consumption of oil.
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Renzi has said he will resign if he loses next month's ballot and was already facing fierce headwinds, with all opposition parties pitted against him and almost every opinion poll over the past two months showing the 'No' camp ahead.
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Through the beautiful cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki and the powerful composition of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, nature and sound are placed front and center in this modern adaptation of an American folk tale about a hunter pitted against the wild.
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An 18-year-old high school student named Jens Philip Yazdani was pitted against Martin Henriksen, a member of Parliament for the far-right Danish People's Party who is the chairman of an important parliamentary committee on immigration, integration and housing.
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Back on March 10, Shawn Donnan and Demetri Sevastopulo described Cohn and Navarro as pitted against each other in a "civil war" in which "Navarro appeared to be losing influence" despite being capable of impressing Trump in face-to-face arguments.
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"Whether it's the U.S., China, India, Europe, there's a lot more competition and it comes from even new sources of capital," Sandrasegara said, adding that his company was no longer just pitted against private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested that Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II, the costly stealth jet considered to be pinnacle of US military aviation, "would have no chance" if pitted against a drone that is remotely piloted by a human.
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"[I'm] not pitted against them in a very antagonistic sense — just in the sense that, oh, we're both shooting for the same things, and it's very unlikely that both of us could get into the school," he told VICE News.
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" That same year, the dean of Stanford's school of education warned that in a global economy, "whether we like it or not, we are beginning to see that we are pitted against the world in a gigantic battle of brains and skill.
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"Women, in particular, are constantly pitted against and compared with each other in a way that reminds me of how people tried to portray Diana and me all the time as rivals, which is something neither of us ever really felt," Fergie wrote.
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Most of all, Invitation to a Bonfire demonstrates how casually women are pitted against one another by the stories of men — and the lengths they are willing to go to to protect themselves from harm without destroying their own ambitions in the process.
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"Women, in particular, are constantly pitted against and compared with each other in a way that reminds me of how people tried to portray Diana and me all the time as rivals, which is something neither of us ever really felt," she says.
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When the women didn't appear to be tight companions to the outside world — both ran with their own circles of friends, and their first joint outing without their husbands didn't come until last year's Wimbledon appearance — they were pitted against each other.
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Diplomatic sources say several thousand Shi'ite and Druze fighters are pitted against hundreds of Sunni jihadists and mainstream Free Syria Army (FSA) rebels closing ranks under the banner of Itihad Quwt Jabal al Sheikh, or "Union of fighters of Jabal al Sheikh".
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The fourth seed, one of the cleanest strikers of the ball in women's tennis, is not expecting it to be a cakewalk, especially being pitted against an opponent as aggressive as Osaka and also more experienced with two Wimbledon titles under her belt.
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But with the country more deeply divided than ever along partisan lines, it's likely that gridlock, rather than cooperation, will be the dominant theme of the next two years with Democrats newly in control of the House pitted against the Republican-held Senate.
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In 1992, the American Michael Chang and the Swede Stefan Edberg met in the semifinals and their playing styles clashed immediately: Edberg quietly dominated the net while Chang played slow and steady, a classic serve-and-volley player pitted against a baseline hitter.
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This week, with closing arguments set to begin on Monday, the dueling depictions of Mr. Hernandez and what might have happened to Etan will be pitted against each other once again before a jury weighs Mr. Hernandez's fate for the second time.
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A battle over how to handle the PCBs, which were first discovered three years ago, is now convulsing this famously wealthy beach community, with parents, television stars and a supermodel pitted against one of the most elite public school districts in the country.
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"We believe workers are strongest when they're together in one shop in one union, so the disciplines can't be pitted against each other — none of that's good for the workers," Kinema, who CWA hired to help run the CODE, told the LA Times.
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As it was, the defeats triggered a contest for leadership of the Conservative Party, resulting in a government which expects to crash out of the EU without an agreement, pitted against a parliament determined to prevent such a thing happening (see Britain section).
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"The politics we deal with differ greatly, and for us it would feel problematic if they were pitted against each other, with the implication that one was more important, significant or more worthy of attention than the others," the four artists wrote.
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All the while, the United States, pitted against enemies adept at terrorist attacks and guerrilla warfare, was field-testing a reboot of Western counterinsurgency doctrine, with an emphasis on protecting civilians and providing services while tightening rules that dictated how troops could fight.
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Something else that came up after making the movie — and something that Aniello and Downs are straight up baffled by — is that Rough Night was constantly compared to and pitted against other women-led comedies like Bridesmaids even before it came out.
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Motherboard's Jason Koebler wrote last year that genealogy databases may seem benign, but it's becoming increasingly easy to foresee a future wherein our own genetic data is unexpectedly pitted against us—to violate our privacy; to wrongly incriminate us; to racially profile us.
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At the rally in Florida's Panhandle, where a subdued crowd and presidential complaints about a slippery stage gave a somewhat spiritless air, Trump claimed that one potential rival -- South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- would fall flat pitted against President Xi Jinping of China.
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GANs consist of two different neural networks pitted against each other in an effort to come up with new outputs — which could range from realistic-looking faces to paintings or, in this case, nude women — that mimic those in a mountain of training data.
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When the sisters-in-law didn't appear to be tight companions to the outside world — both ran with their own circles of friends, and their first joint outing without their husbands didn't come until last year's Wimbledon appearance — they were pitted against each other.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Crowds of light motorbikes gun their engines in parts of the Malaysian capital after dark, as their young riders face off in impromptu races to decide who is the fastest and most skilful, sometimes with dozens of vehicles pitted against each other.
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In her first role as a series regular since she left Grey's Anatomy (sob!), Sandra Oh plays Eve, a securities operative (I don't know what that is, admittedly) who ends up pitted against a contract killer, Villanelle (Jodie Comer, who led Starz's The White Princess).
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In HBO's upcoming miniseries, Gunpowder, GoT alums Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Mark Gatiss (Tycho Nestoris) will recreate some of the horrors imposed on people in the 17th century under King James I's oppressive regime, only this time, they'll be pitted against one another.
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The war, which has mostly seen Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer ethnic group pitted against each other, has killed tens of thousands, uprooted about a quarter of the country's population of 12 million and slashed oil production, on which the economy depends almost entirely.
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Money managers making bearish bets against the yuan, including top investors Kyle Bass, David Tepper and Bill Ackman, are pitted against Chinese policymakers who are trying to manage a more orderly decline of the currency, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported at the weekend.
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It's also great not to see the contrast of Park's always impeccable hair — she reportedly spends 90 minutes a day getting her hair styled — being played against Judge Lee's lower maintenance routine because we know that women are pitted against each other all too often.
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This is a combination of two AI development methods: one, genetic algorithms, in which competing systems are pitted against each other in a manner analogous to evolutionary competition; and two, fuzzy logic, which mixes logical systems of calculation with probabilistic factors — hence the fuzziness.
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The clash, which left the Monimbo area of Masaya city in western Nicaragua littered with shell casings and shattered glass, lasted more than four hours and saw protesters armed with homemade mortars pitted against hooded government loyalists with automatic weapons, the news agency said.
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Market leaders Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone's local unit and Idea Cellular Ltd are pitted against new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd in the battle for airwaves to boost their high-speed data services in what is the world's second-biggest market by mobile phone subscriptions.
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Sharapova, the five-time Grand Slam champion who received a wild-card berth while still rebuilding her ranking after a suspension for drug use, was pitted against Simona Halep, the No. 43 seed seeking her first major title and, potentially, the No. 1 ranking.
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So begins a struggle between the real and the virtual, the literary and the fantastical, as Nina and her poetry are pitted against Daphne and her seething virtual world in what threatens to turn into a fight for the souls of these two young men.
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But in pursuing these changes, city officials could be setting the stage for an art-world version of class warfare, with cultural giants and their well-heeled patrons pitted against smaller, less-glamorous institutions that focus chiefly on serving racially and economically diverse local audiences.
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There is easy symbolism to be had in the contrast between these two states — soaring aspiration pitted against the remains of demolished ambition — but the author Sean Adams is thankfully less interested in allegory than in harnessing its strange contrasts to create cutting satire.
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And department stores are increasingly pitted against Amazon, Walmart and Target, which — thanks to more consecutive sales growth — have more to spend on ramping up same-day delivery and launching in-house apparel brands, which are stealing share from the likes of Macy's and Kohl's.
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It is an argument that presupposes that man and nature are two opposing forces pitted against one another, and therefore the solution to this kind of dilemma is to change our behavior or regulate our actions through policy — a decidedly solid and pragmatic approach.
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Rubio's electoral potential looks even more promising if you imagine him pitted against Hillary Clinton This was partly because, as Obama himself wrote in his 2006 book, his newness as a political figure let many different people imagine that he would fulfill their various hopes and aspirations.
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I don't know if that's necessarily true — just ask the thousands of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift stans who've sworn to be eternally pitted against one another — but what I do know is that the music industry, with all its flaws, can be a truly powerful force.
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But the defiance from Rome that has locked it into an unprecedented standoff with Brussels - and given fresh legs to a discredited image of financially responsible northern euro zone nations pitted against a profligate south - seems certain to delay that process and probably dilute it for good.
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Critically, when a putative Trump issue platform (lower taxes, less regulation, cut illegal immigration and oppose China) is pitted against a hypothetical Warren platform (green new deal, Medicare for all, free college tuition, more immigration and higher taxes), the Trump platform wins 60 percent to 40 percent.
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At times, and especially during the awards portion of the evening, that made for a confusing mandate, with global folk songs pitted against choral lite-gospel, and smarmy pop-rock alongside the familiar complex multipart vocal harmonizing (with vocal percussion!) that is a cappella's public face.
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A grass-roots effort to remove the judge for lenient sentencing has exposed sharp fissures within activist circles, with victims' rights advocates who are leading the charge pitted against others who worry the effort could cut against efforts to decrease high imprisonment rates in the United States.
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The prospect of a disaster aid package is also reviving raw emotions from after Hurricane Sandy, when Northeastern Republicans found themselves pitted against conservative colleagues from other regions — including most of the Texas delegation — who objected to the roughly $50 billion relief package for the 2012 storm.
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Mr. Trump has criticized Boeing over the cost of a new Air Force One project, but it is also a major employer and exporter, as well as a military contractor — one that Mr. Trump has pitted against Lockheed Martin in seeking price savings on fighter jets.
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Instead of being seen as opportunistic, Swift seems to have succeeded in framing her campaign as a fight for unsigned and less powerful artists' rights, which has resonated at a moment where content creators are all pitted against the 1% of the tech and corporate worlds.
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She has her sister, Anna, and together -- not pitted against each other -- they figure out the best way to lead their queendom which (if the girls I saw on the sidewalk have anything to say about it) may well, again, lead into the box office stratosphere.
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The argument of Cernovich and his cronies is, ultimately, that none of us is actually good, that we are all venal and horrible, and that we live in a world where we should all, always, be pitted against each other, defined only by our worst selves.
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While some are viewing the conflict as an opportunity for a larger discussion about the ways Black and Jewish communities have been pitted against one another in the past, others have called the statement simply "hypocritical" and said it's too little, too late for them to recover their support.
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Tech companies from both countries have been pitted against one another, as an enormous amount of American technology is produced in China due to the cheap costs, Ives said, and competition over who will cash in on the technology of tomorrow — in particular, artificial intelligence — is extremely fierce.
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Nestle agreed to sell its U.S. confectionery business in January) By Chris Prentice NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - The world's top food companies and farmers of crops such as beet sugar are pitted against each other as they lobby the U.S. government over plans to label genetically-engineered ingredients.
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These methods include, for example, reinforcement learning, where you give a computer a "reward" when it does the thing you want, gradually optimizing the best solution; and genetic algorithms, where competing methods for solving a problem are pitted against one another in a manner comparable to natural selection.
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Seeing a series that is a nuanced yet humorous exploration of the young, black experience today pitted against a fizzy comedy steeped in upper class narratives about a white woman attempting to make it in stand-up in the 1950's, took me back to Oscar night 2017.
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In this scenario the label itself would become contested, with the kind of winsome and multiethnic evangelicalism envisioned by the anti-Trump Southern Baptist Russell Moore pitted against the nationalist evangelicalism of a Jerry Falwell Jr. or Robert Jeffress, and churches along the fault line internally embattled and dividing.
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If "House of Cards" and "Borgen" collided in Paris: That's the tone of this French political thriller, in which two campaign consultants, Simon Kapita (Bruno Wolkowitch) and Ludovic Desmeuze (Grégory Fitoussi), are pitted against each other when their respective employers decide to claw their way into the Élysée Palace.
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Usually pitted against each other, each perspective serves a similar function: letting us off the hook by asserting that there is a deep-rooted, troubling problem — more than one in six Americans does not make enough to afford basic necessities — that most of us bear no responsibility for.
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Cricket's three formats — five-day Test matches, which have been played since 1877; one-day internationals, which have been played since 1971; and Twenty20 internationals, played since 2005 — are "increasingly being pitted against one another," said Simon Chadwick, a professor of sports enterprise at the University of Salford.
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Shortly after the Jones win, former NBA star and Alabama native Charles Barkley captured those frustrations in remarks on CNN — though he did so in a way that sought to draw an alliance between black voters and poor white voters who have often been pitted against one another.
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Obviously, these good speeches don't guarantee that any of these people will win at the Oscars — in the lead categories, after all, Colman and Close will compete against one another, while Bale will be pitted against Bohemian Rhapsody's Rami Malek, who won Best Drama Actor at the Globes.
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"This moment is so powerful because we're seeing… a collaboration between these two worlds that people don't usually put together and would most likely have us pitted against each other," she said, from within a picture-in-picture, while a shot of Dakota Johnson filled the bulk of the screen.
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Whereas what confronts us now, what we know we face, is Trump himself as one of two choices for the most powerful office in the world, pitted against an unpopular and generally-beatable opponent, in a more-unstable-than-recently global landscape in which Trumpian candidates are doing well all over.
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The Tesla Model 3 sedan and Chevrolet Bolt EV hatchback are two of the best-selling electric vehicles in the US. (It's a small market, but the Model 3 is the top seller by far.) And since the Bolt debuted at the end of 2016, they've been pitted against each other.
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Under the Democrats' watch, the black community has lost so many lives, been politicized for low political ends, seen their education and life prospects dim, remain caught in the cycle of poverty, and most of all seen them pitted against law enforcement by political elites who salivate at their misery.
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Elsewhere in the show, Jaakko Pallasvuo's Easy Rider comic depicts the artist as a depressed artist, privileged but struggling, as he falls into a fantastical world where a kind of pagan, ecological magic is pitted against the police force, linking the artist's personal ennui with the concept of the anthropocene.
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The awards ceremony, which took place in Lisbon last week, has been dubbed the "Oscars of Innovation" and the "Eurovision for Inventors," with European nations pitted against each other at a glitzy bash held in a different continental city every year—and with a couple of zany interval acts to boot.
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Yankees 26, Indians 24 CLEVELAND — If Houston's A.J. Hinch, the American League manager in next week's All-Star Game, was mulling whom to select as his starting pitcher in the exhibition, a convenient showcase presented itself on Thursday night when two of the best in baseball were pitted against each other.
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The couple met in 2010 at the QuickTricks Bridge Club in San Francisco, though Mr. Powell, who was intensely focused on his cards, did not remember meeting Mr. Bastedo until a few days later when, coincidentally, they were pitted against each other in a doubles tennis match at a local park.
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He was pitted against Republican Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreThe biggest political upsets of the decade GOP predicts bipartisan acquittal at Trump impeachment trial Senate Democrat says he's not worried about losing Alabama seat if he votes against Trump in Senate trial MORE, who had been accused of sexually assaulting minors.
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Following the destruction of the New Republic with the Starkiller Base attack in The Force Awakens, Episode VIII will take place in an unusual geopolitical setting, where the Resistance — essentially a militia loosely affiliated with the Republic — is pitted against the First Order, a rebel group formed by surviving imperial hardliners.
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Inspired, in part, by a Buzzfeed bracket that used cute animals instead of college teams, MMM is built just like the NCAA tournament, but with different species pitted against each other in fictional fights—live-tweeted, Dungeons and Dragons-style—with actual scientific research to back up the creatures' strengths and stats.
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Miller: It's essentially a western, bad guys versus good guys, who's wearing the white hat, who's wearing the dark hat, you want to make sure the guy wearing the dark hat is fascinating and terrifying and multi-dimensional so that your heroes, Michael and Lincoln, are pitted against the most dangerous foes imaginable.
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Ten minutes into my conversation with Y.K. Kim—the star of the 1987 film Miami Connection, which chronicles five friends pitted against a gang of nefarious cocaine dealers and was featured on last week's episode of VICELAND's Outsiders—I'm handed over to Kenneth Pelt, a charming, steady-voiced associate of the taekwondo master.
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That plotline would have been savage AF. In some ways, that very scenario can be the competitive milieu gay men find themselves in once they step out of the closet: a vicious, body comparison tournament in which they are pitted against their friends, frenemies, potential hook-ups, and even their significant others.
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Instead of such a tempering of both worldviews, though, we seem to be headed in the opposite direction — toward a world where the parties are polarized by gender and the two moralistic programs, feminist and conservative, are therefore seen as just the expression of each sex's interests as pitted against the other.
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It's a doozy, with David Carradine as a grizzled cop and Michael Moriarty as a failed musician/small-time crook with big dreams; the two human protagonists are pitted against each other and a giant winged serpent that's been nesting atop the Chrysler Building and swooping down on Gotham pedestrians for lunch.
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Other Democratic lawmakers have indicated they would support Markey if pitted against Kennedy, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer, Pelosi push Trump to back universal background check bill Sinema says she would back Kennedy in race against Markey Democrats threaten to withhold defense votes over wall MORE (D-N.
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Trump's key economic advisors are pitted against each other on trade policy, with senior advisor Steve Bannon and trade advisor Peter Navarro on one side and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and his staff on the other, according to FT. One official said there was "a fiery meeting" recently in the Oval Office.
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And so if people think back to The Bachelor and me voicing these concerns with the person I'm pitted against, who is Corinne, and we look at the differences in our behaviors, maybe that helps give them context into my thoughts on the situation or why I was even saying something in the first place.
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The tragedy of the Trump movement is that one set of struggling people has been pitted against other groups of struggling people by someone who has known little struggle, at least in the material sense, and hence seems to have little empathy for anyone struggling, and even to consider struggling a symptom of weakness.
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From Pennsylvania, to Minnesota, to North Carolina, the issues largely remain the same: local citizens and activists are pitted against large multinational corporations and face overwhelming odds to stave off the potentially catastrophic impact that these pipelines may have on freshwater supplies, local wildlife populations, the local economy and job market and Native American lands.
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" And the two groups fare roughly as poorly when interest groups are pitted against them: "The rich get their favored outcome despite the combined opposition of [interest groups and the middle] at a rate of 21960 percent; meanwhile, average Americans' favored outcome occurs 30 percent of the time that they face combined opposition from interest groups and the wealthy.
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Kathy Bates lights up as Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, the owner of a Southern California medical marijuana dispensary whose tie-dyed activism is pitted against the business acumen of her son, Travis (Aaron Moten), a newly minted M.B.A. Ruth wants to rail against the Man; Travis wants her to grow their shop into the Walmart of cannabis.
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A pair of reckless and talented guards, linked through their shared time in Oklahoma City, and pitted against each other in a hectic race for M.V.P., they are perhaps the two players in the N.B.A. most vital to their teams' success and will undoubtedly put on a show in this series since neither bothers playing much defense.
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When pitted against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, 22019 percent said the Democratic nominee would be a better president than Pence, while 43 percent backed the vice president's abilities.
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The First Capital Command, which is from São Paulo and known by its Portuguese acronym P.C.C., is pitted against regional gangs, like the Amazon-based Family of the North, which the authorities said was behind the massacre in Manaus, and the Crime Syndicate, a gang from Rio Grande do Norte which was attacked by the P.C.C. on Jan. 14.
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According to data compiled by Daily Kos Elections, there have been 44 state house elections and 24 state Senate elections in which a Democrat and Republican nominee were pitted against each other since Trump won — in addition to the one US Senate and 5 US House elections of this nature that got much more national coverage.
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"There's a whole wave of feminists, I feel like it's mostly second-wave feminists, who write that if you cater to some kind of male gaze then you are the reason why women are being oppressed," she says, when I ask how she's able to convince people it's possible for the two to coincide, when they're so often pitted against each other.
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Booker sought at some points to cast himself as a unifying figure, lamenting that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE would be happy that Democrats were allowing themselves to be pitted against each other.
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I think it'd be helpful to discuss this dynamic with him — not the one that includes only the two of you, pitted against each other in a who-does-what argument, but one that acknowledges that this is a cultural problem and one part of solving it on the micro level is recognizing that there are macro reasons the imbalances in your relationship exist.
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She was frequently pitted against her boss, Jonah Jameson, who wanted to fill his women's magazine with empty-calorie fluff that he believed women "wanted": In that first issue of Ms. Marvel, Conway broached the topics of equal pay, women in journalism, the topics women cover in journalism, "having it all," and balancing a love life with a career, all issues that remain topics of discussion 37 years on.
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The rival factions of The Royal Deadfire Company and The Vailian Trading Company are pitted against each other by the player through dialogue options with several characters across many different islands (as well as a couple of the more exciting missions), but it always felt to me like the early 2000s were always intruding on these intricate politics with clunky combat and time-wasting walks across beautiful maps.
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The Asian nation is set for its third appearance at the quadrennial event but has never gone beyond the last-16 and is pitted against higher-ranked teams in hosts France and Norway in Group A. Hosts France are ranked fourth in the world, 10 places above Korea, while Norway are 12th but without Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg, who has refused to play for the national team.
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Though Iden's shock quickly turns to action, for anyone who's rewatched the Star Wars movies too many times over the years, it's a powerful moment, in which your ingrained reaction—pumping your fist alongside R2-D2, Luke Skywalker, and everyone else, as they making meaningful progress against a powerful group of galactic fascists—is pitted against a natural instinct to empathize with the character you're controlling in the game.
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If "House of Cards" and "Borgen" collided in Paris: That's the tone of this French political thriller, in which two campaign consultants, Simon Kapita (Bruno Wolkowitch) and Ludovic Desmeuze (Grégory Fitoussi), are pitted against each other when their respective employers — Anne Visage (Nathalie Baye), the secretary of state for social affairs and health, and Philippe Deleuvre (Philippe Magnan), the prime minister — decide to claw their way into the Élysée Palace.
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The decision made abortion not only profoundly safer but far more accessible to millions of women around the US. "America's movement for choice has been such a powerful leader globally in terms of access to abortion and contraception," says Sarah Hodges, a historian at the University of Warwick, UK. But 44 years on, abortion remains one of the US's most controversial and polarizing issues, with people pitted against one another as either 'pro-choice' or 'pro-life'.
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