The fight over Marvel, the comic book and sports card company, pits its board and bank lenders against the bondholders, led by Carl C. Icahn.

Instead, that fight pitted longstanding practice against the new science of sanitation and public health.

The ensuing fight would pit two artillery batteries against a battalion of Chinese infantry in broad daylight and at close range.

This long fight pitted the waterfront against the "Hill People" or the rich on the hill looking down on the water front.

The fights typically pit a kickboxer against a Greco-Roman wrestler, or a judo champion against a heavyweight boxer.

His fight against the ordinance has pitted him against local politician Ronda Storms on many occasions.

The main fight would pit populist nationalism against progressive globalism.

His first professional fight in 1983 pitted him against Tyrone Trice, in which he suffered a defeat.

The fight over diversity jurisdiction already pits lawyers against Federal judges.

The fight at the medium-security prison, about 25 miles from the Canadian border, pitted a group of black inmates against a group of Hispanic prisoners.