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The real shame is that two of the finest broadcasters alive have to be pitted against each other for one late-night time slot on one network - - with so much sewage in prime time , you 'd think that Koppel and Letterman would n't have to fight for scraps late at night . As southwestern U.S. cities have grown , the so-called lower basin states of Nevada , California and Arizona have been pitted against the upper basin states of Colorado , Wyoming , Utah and New Mexico . But there 's a real problem in Washington D.C. today - too often groups are pitted against each other . Under the sponsorship of the American Chemical Society two years ago , one of his violins was pitted against an average Stradivarius ( some 700 still exist ) for a comparison test . Superior Allied technology is expected to be pitted against the prepared defenses of the Iraqi forces . Adam was pitted against Eve , Cain against Abel and Noah against Ham. Genesis is a series of stories describing " the frailty of the family institution - the concern that the family unit will siphon off the enthusiasm that people have for religion , for larger social units , for God . " As India 's government presses on with its water scheme , the Booker-winning novelist dismisses Supreme Court rulingIndependent on Sunday - United Kingdom - 22 October 2000WHEN WORK resumes on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the state of Gujarat in nine days , two visions of India will be pitted against each other . All too often in contemporary approaches to arts training , intellectual concerns are pitted against artistic and aesthetic ones ; the professional artist is either fearful of or antagonistic to the life of the mind , and the intellectual suspicious and unappreciative of the work of the studio and the stage . When this reassessment turned its attention to hate speech , civil liberties were pitted against civil rights , and the primacy of the First Amendment was attacked in the name of equality , safety , dignity , and empowerment . If two majority candidates are pitted against a minority candidate , under plurality voting ( without a runoff ) , for example , a voter might vote for the majority candidate who seems to have the better chance of winning - - even though this voter might prefer the other majority candidate - - to try to prevent the minority candidate from winning . Parents of special needs students are pitted against regular education parents ; Advanced Placement kids are pitted against kids who might need remedial help . " In the Net neutrality debate , cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service , including AT & T and Verizon , are pitted against major Internet players like Google and Amazon and large-scale users , like the left-wing MoveOn.org .