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"It effectively pits our border policy against our growth policy," he said.

And it effectively pits our border policy against our growth policy and we are not being straight with the public about that".

The presidential election of 1912 is one of the more interesting of the 20th Century because it effectively pitted two very progressive candidates and a socialist against the incumbent president who had profoundly disappointed those most committed to deploying the powers of government against entrenched private interests.

It effectively prevented pit closures until both sides agreed the pit reserves were exhausted.

Mr. Levin's tax bill effectively pits the defense industry against other heavyweights, especially high-tech companies like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Facebook, all of which are singled out by the Levin bill as abusers of the tax code.

Believing in a world of absolute good and evil, and confused by Alina's passion, the nuns and priest respond by trying to ritualistically drive out the Devil, an ordeal that effectively pits one woman against a millennium of religious orthodoxy.

This effectively pitted opposition candidates against each other, improving Kabila's chances.

From Super Bowl V forward, the games have effectively pitted two divisions of the same gigantic corporation against each another.

The campaign would effectively pit Mr. Giuliani, an erstwhile Republican presidential candidate, against the governor, a Democrat.

But the ban has effectively pitted small distributors, which rely on Oscar nominations to promote their movies, against large studios, which have bigger marketing budgets.

Last time around, on the sanitaryware-themed concept album B'Day, Knowles set Rodney Jerkins, Rich Harrison and Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean to work in adjacent studios, effectively pitting three of the world's biggest urban producers against each other.