Sentence examples for has been pitted from inspiring English sources

It won't be the first time national sovereignty has been pitted against the ICC in Kenya.

The Li family has been pitted against the market reformers in the party including Zhu Rongji, China's prime minister, who is also due to step down.

The value of the "core" Stem (science, tech, engineering and maths) approach has been pitted against the Steam approach (the "a" is for arts).

From a British perspective, we might have been able to speak more about Johanna Konta after her run to the quarter-final in Eastbourne, so it is a shame that she has been pitted against Sharapova in the first round.

A sterner test awaits Djokovic in the next round where he has been pitted against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who celebrated his first five-set match with a grinding win over Nicolas Almagro today.

For his debut in English football, Dijkhuizen has been pitted against one of the most wily managers in the Championship, as Mick McCarthy will take Ipswich Town to Griffin Park.

The fight has been pitting some of Asia's wealthiest tycoons, like Sir Gordon Wu and Li Ka-shing, against one another.

It doesn't help, he adds, that an "incredibly polarising … divide-and-rule" approach by politicians has been pitting the middle class against the less well off and is one reason why effective opposition movements remain "muffled".

Since 1939 the Geneva International Music Competition (Concours de Genève) has been pitting top musicians between the ages of 15-30 against each other in a bid to win top prize, 20,000 francs (£15,000), and, of course, a Swiss watch.

Grant taunts him, boasting that SPECTRE has been pitting the Soviets and the British against each other, and claims that Romanova thinks that "she's doing it all for mother Russia".

TYPE/DYNAMICS was shot inside the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where LUSTlab's immersive, responsive isntallation of the same name has been pitting viewers inside a real-life matrix since 2013.