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He created a 'competitive cauldron' that pitted players against each other in training matches and head-to-heads.

In total, there are 10 British players in the women's singles draw - and half of them have been pitted against seeded players.

The possibility that he might draw the US into another foreign entanglement has pitted the isolationist and hawkish wings of his party bitterly against one another.

The event — co-hosted by the nonprofit research group Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety and the California Building Industry Assn. — pitted two tiny homes, about the size of sheds, against a fire.

Costed at about £120m, Leeds found itself pitted against Greater Manchester in a race to win approval from Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.