Sentence examples for simply pit from inspiring English sources

But in the clash over homosexuality, the battle lines do not simply pit ministers against secular advocates for gay rights.

The Margarito fights are simply pit stops during his old-fashion pursuit of glory inside the ropes.

New York, without naming Talx, instructed the Labor Department staff to side with workers in cases that simply pit their word against those of agents for employers.

It gave him enough of a lead over the cars he was really racing, specifically the McLarens, that difficult strategic choices did not need to be made; he could simply pit in response to them and still come out ahead.

The idea that this crisis has simply pitted one democratic mandate – that of Greece – against the hard-pressed taxpayers of 18 other eurozone members is nonsense.

The Commission proposed a new framework for decision-making, which avoided simply pitting economic against social and environmental interests.

At a time when too much in our mass media simply pits one American against another and indignation and inflammation seem to be the litmus tests for deciding what's news, these iconic transcendent spaces are more important to our lives and our country than ever.

Some caves of the unsaturated zone are simply pits tens to hundreds of metres deep, which show little horizontal development.

Mr. Gore simply has to pit the have-nots and haves against the have-it-alls.

But many other dog breeds simply resemble pit bulls in appearance, even if they don't have any genetic pit bull ancestry.

Theo Walcott had come on as a substitute but this was not an occasion for his speed simply to be pitted against a wearying side.