7 sentences with “pitting”

War finally broke out in 1642, pitting the anti-royal 'roundheads' (so called because of their bowl cuts) and their Scottish allies against the Royalist 'knights'.

A flurry of attacks and counter-attacks ensued, eventually pitting the Catholic Habsburgs against the Protestant Germanic princes and, soon, their allied Danish king.

In many ways, the very idea of Western Civilisation is a "loaded" idea, pitting one form or branch of civilisation against others as if they were distinct, even unrelated.

Thus, in this case, the cultural bias pitting European Christians against (perceived) non-European Muslims proved stronger than the pragmatic, conservative concern to suppress revolutions among European powers.

In the 1650s, Sweden ruled Denmark, Norway, Finland and the Baltic region. King Charles XI (r. 1660 - 1697) successfully imitated the absolutism of Louis XIV by pitting the lesser nobles against the greater nobles, forcing the nobles to serve him directly.

In the years that followed, the French Wars of Religion became a three-way civil war pitting the Catholic League against the rightful king of France (both sides were Catholic, but were as focused on destroying each other as they were on fighting the Huguenots) with the Huguenots fighting both in turn.

The Eastern Orthodox Church: The Orthodox Church was the product of medieval divisions within the Church itself, pitting the Western papacy against the Byzantine emperors. It was not affected by the Protestant Reformation, since the Reformation occurred in Western Europe. Thus, the Orthodox Church remained in Greece, parts of the Balkans and Russia.