Sentence examples for pit city from inspiring English sources
"These incentives pit city against city, state against state and region against region," he said.
BUT even if the jobs and the commuters stay where they are, Mr. Spano argued against the commuter tax, saying it would wrongly pit city against suburb.
But even if the jobs and the commuters stay where they are, the Nassau County executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, has argued against the commuter tax on the grounds that the city should not pit city against suburb.
"Rankings pit cities against each other.
The LA dealings are the latest example of the way NFL teams pit cities against each other in an effort to win new stadiums -- which are paid for with massive public subsidies.
This afternoon, a brief truce revealed a line of Army armored personnel carriers and a stretch of charred and pitted city block.
There is a yawning class divide, pitting city against town and, more profoundly, those who feel they have something to lose against those who feel they do not.
The move, one of the pillars of Hidalgo's 2014 election campaign, has pitted city hall against the regional council, right against left, motorists against pedestrians, in increasingly bad tempered exchanges.
With so much on the line, the canal expansion has pitted city against city and is testing the mettle of lawmakers torn between their opposition to federal earmarks, which pay for the bulk of port projects, and the gold rush that is about to begin along their shorelines.
The standoff over release of the spending records led to a series of lawsuits and labor grievances, pitting city officials against the union.
