Sentence examples for it was pitted from inspiring English sources

"Berlin was overhyped by the media several years ago when it was pitted as the next Silicon Valley," he says.

In 2006, when her debut came out, it was pitted against Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, an infinitely richer record.

It was pitted, repaired again and by the final session out on track running trouble free a feat that appeared highly unlikely 24 hours before.

Such wised-up, European-influenced painting appeared heroic because it was pitted against fashions in conceptual art and critical theory that were striving to expunge painting altogether from respectable contemporary art.

If you think about the scenario with the SUV and the Smart car, the problem wasn't just that the Smart car, by itself, is a lightweight vehicle — it's that it was pitted against a much heavier one.

The Senate committee's Republicans, who had pulled out of the inquiry in September 2009, savaged it as a Democratic witchhunt – a critical boost for a CIA that wanted to avoid the narrative that it was pitted against the Senate.

It is pitted against democracy, since intellect is felt to be a form of distinction that defies egalitarianism".

It's pitted and gnarled into random formations known as anvils, with hollows and even caves between them.

"It is pitted against character, because it is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness, which transmutes easily into the sly or the diabolical.

It is pitted against practicality, since theory is held to be opposed to practice, and the 'purely' theoretical mind is so much disesteemed.

The grass borders around it are pitted and bald.