Sentence examples for has become pitched from inspiring English sources

Nearly nine years into the Afghan war, with the number of troops here climbing toward 100,000, the pace for air crews that retrieve the wounded has become pitched.

The issue of corporate indemnification has become especially pitched at Goldman, which is mired in several prominent cases.

The battle has become so pitched in places like Egypt that the forces of reaction — namely the military — seem more determined than ever to hold on.

Although Montana and its three reliably Republican electoral votes have been largely overlooked in this year's presidential race, the state has become a pitched battleground over campaign-finance rules.

But since the Keystone XL has become a pitched political battle, this announcement is also an encouraging affirmation of the power of people, creative protest, and grassroots organizing in the face of the entrenched power and big bucks of the oil industry.

It has become personal, pitching the two religions against each other where once there was relative calm.

After a few years spent riding tractors around his ranch in Texas and tending bar at his in-laws' bowling alley in Pennsauken, in Camden County, he has become the pitching coach of the Surf, a collection of almost-beens, hope-to-bes and never-wases in the independent minor Atlantic League.

SABATHIA FACES PRICE C. C. Sabathia has become accustomed to pitching against the Rays since he came to the Yankees for the 2009 season.

He learned to throw a slider and a sinker and stumbled upon what has become his signature pitch, the changeup.

Near the city centre, the yellow tiled floor of a demolished church has become a football pitch for the local boys.

Colon's first strikeout, of Travis Snider, came on what has become his signature pitch, a wicked two-seam fastball that starts at a left-handed hitter's belt buckle before zipping across the inside corner.