Later, their masters shot and then dumped them into the pits.

This pits them against one another and has precipitated panic, putting refugees in even greater peril.

That formulation all but pits the central government and regions against one another in a battle for political supremacy.

A war that pits America against the world could call into doubt the progress of globalization, particularly international trade negotiations.

In San Martín Jilotepeque, villagers were rounded up by Guatemala's military, forced to cook for soldiers and dig pits in the earth.

This toilet technology involves building a toilet which is connected to two pits, any one of which is used at a time.

The project Map of potholes monitors the condition of the Russian roads and encourages people to send precise coordinates of the road pits.

Thailand s color coated crisis pits largely urban, conservative, and royalist yellow shirts against the predominantly rural red columns of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Such strategies complicate rural politics by producing a highly contentious dual power structure that pits party secretaries and village committee chiefs against one another.

This recently redrawn suburban Pittsburg district pits Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb who won his seat in another district in a special election last spring.

Vettel went into the pits first and left Hamilton to run into the traffic at the tail of the pack, something which should have been decisive.

He eventually came into the pits on the 44th lap but was unable to increase his pace in the remaining eight laps as Raikkonen took fourth.

The conflict in the north of Mali pits the Malian army and its allies against many rebels groups fighting for greater autonomy or independence in the region.

But the outcome of this grand experiment, which pits an authoritarian government dedicated to controlling politics against an information technology inherently resistant to such controls, is far from certain.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

Indeed, notwithstanding the conventional wisdom that the main post Cold War division pits the poor South against the rich North, the ferment within Islam suggests a struggle between rich and rich.

Almost half of India's 1.2 billion people, especially those living in villages, lack flush toilet facilities inside their home and have to defecate in the open or in dry unhygienic pits.

The 42nd United European Football Association (UEFA) Super Cup pits Real Madrid, reigning Champions League victor, against Manchester United, Europa League champion in Skopje, Macedonia on the 8th of August, 2017.

The short term consequences of using landfills, shallow pits, or incinerators to get rid of e waste is the release of these noxious chemicals, which adversely impact ecological processes, wildlife, and human health.

But six years of divisive as well as dismissively haughty misrule by Tung's administration, which pits one group against another as its preferred method of governance, suggest that Hong Kong's problems are much deeper.

To get there, you must pass through a 15 kilometer stretch of red dirt that looks like it could be a part of the Dakar Rally, with hills, dunes and pits created by erosion.

It is time to abandon the either or discourse that pits science against humanities which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half century ago as an obstacle to human progress.

Humanity is currently engaged in a far reaching and urgent competition that pits the need to embed a twenty first century green economy against the rapid implosion of our climate and natural life support systems.

Now in its third year, the civil war pits the primarily Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's government and its security forces, which are stacked with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

A banking crisis that could have been resolved through a fair and decisive restructuring of unsustainable debts has ballooned into a much greater economic and political crisis that pits creditors against debtors, both within and among countries.

A second method has been to actively interfere and encroach upon village government affairs through higher level township officials. Such strategies complicate rural politics by producing a highly contentious dual power structure that pits party secretaries and village committee chiefs against one another.

A war that pits America against the world could call into doubt the progress of globalization, particularly international trade negotiations. Moreover, if the US acts alone, no doubt the post conflict costs that America will bear alone will be higher as well.

But, along with the precious metals, e waste also contains potent toxic chemicals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants. The short term consequences of using landfills, shallow pits, or incinerators to get rid of e waste is the release of these noxious chemicals, which adversely impact ecological processes, wildlife, and human health.

But six years of divisive as well as dismissively haughty misrule by Tung's administration, which pits one group against another as its preferred method of governance, suggest that Hong Kong's problems are much deeper. Hong Kong is now an acrimoniously divided society harking back to the days when Chinese communists routinely classified their own citizens as either the people'' or enemies of the state.''

Indeed, notwithstanding the conventional wisdom that the main post Cold War division pits the poor South against the rich North, the ferment within Islam suggests a struggle between rich and rich. Elites in Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states have the financial clout of the most advanced countries, yet not a single Arab state has a seat in the Security Council or is a member of the G 7.