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And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this pitting of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.
The War of Independence impacted upon us terribly, pitting family against family, neighbor against neighbor.
They're also pitting teenagers and their parents in a fundamentally unwinnable fight against their own bodies.
John Henry's legend is a part of a long historical narrative pitting humanity versus technology.
So, it's pitting one against the other.
If you love Japanese monster movies, you'll love this action packed battle pitting an alien invader, intent upon conquering the Earth, and a "Giant Robot" with an armory of super weaponry.
Nicely done evil little comedy pitting the FBI against organized crime with a nice lady caught in the middle.
Pitting one's will against the other's in a battlefield arena.
This film is exactly what you get when you really over stretch your abilities, it's like someone who has just passed there driving test and then pitting them in a formula 1 Grand Prix (not I might add, the US Grand Prix as everyone might pull out due to dodgy tyres and you might just win), that is how far short this film falls.
The audience member cannot but help but to feel that (s)he must make wrenching emotional decisions pitting the cerebral against the libidinal.
What doesn't work is a sharp left turn in the narrative about an hour into the proceedings, with an absolutely unbelievable (and unforgivable) turn of events pitting the robbers against each other.
"Untraceable" is another slick suspense yarn, once again, pitting some determined FBI agents against a methodical, overly intelligent, and ultra-crafty serial killer who inexplicably prolongs his victims suffering over the World Wide Web.
The main reason it has become semi-legendary would seem to be entirely down to its ingenious premise of pitting the rabbit against a whole team of thuggish ball players.
The initial sequence with the young dilettante's flatulent and cursing father kicking her rugby style sets the tone for the rest of the film, consistently pitting the stupidity of the male against the instinctive and openly unscrupulous intelligence of the leading female (there is hope yet in the typist but she is not the one all the men fall in love with...) Glorious comic touches sprinkle the film but if I had to select the cherry on this cake that would be the sequence where Denner, the rat exterminator, is waiting for Bernadette to come back from her visit to the singer.
El Salvador, which this film depicts, was in the throes of yet another wave of civil disorder, pitting the large and very poor underclass against the small numbers of privileged upper class with predictable results.
In fact, many Republicans fear a contest pitting Trump against Clinton.
These changes left Turkey, a key state bridging East and West, pitting identity against ideology.
Ever since, disagreements within Hamas have been escalating, pitting the movement’s Diaspora leadership against the Hamas-led Gaza administration, which has openly rejected the unity deal.
With ultra-nationalist and anti-Arab rhetoric, Netanyahu manipulates Israelis into believing that they are under threat, physically, demographically, and even existentially, thereby pitting them against their Arab compatriots.
The weakening of World Bank safeguards might also trigger a “race to the bottom,” pitting private or state investors, new financing institutions, and a deregulated World Bank against one another, while provoking a popular backlash.
Demagogues have had great success pitting such people against coastal and urban elites who supposedly want to strip them of this right.
But the Palestinians are not engaged in a civil war pitting moderates versus extremists.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld even tried to use divide-and-rule tactics by pitting “New” Europe against the “Old” Europe led by France and Germany, which opposed the Iraq war.
Gone is the simplistic view of a conflict pitting aspiring democrats against a grouchy dictator – the familiar (though not entirely accurate) narrative of the Arab Spring.
Constantly pitting one side against the other may make for entertaining roundtables on cable television and energizing political rallies.
Instead, Chen’s futile effort to “de-Sinicize” Taiwan created a wastefully divisive contentious society, pitting “mainlanders” and “locals” against each other.
Instead, populism will look more like an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, motivated less by immigration and economic policy than by conservative cultural attitudes among Trump and Brexit voters and the unusual demographic alliances pitting old against young, rural against urban, and university graduates against less educated voters in the US and Britain.
There is always a danger that the Democrats will be divided, with younger radicals pitting themselves against the mostly white establishment.
We have already seen a series of worrisome confrontations in the region, pitting China against Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea, and against Japan in the East China Sea.
In contrast, Trump is pitting the US against its Asian allies.
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