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Those conflicts are threatening to trigger a wider war that would pit the United States and Israel against Iran and its proxies.

Book censorship has shaken and divided school boards, pitted parents against parents, and led to threats against teachers and librarians.

The disputes have pitted the three states in the river’s lower basin — California, Arizona and Nevada — against the four upper basin states — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

But when stress is coming from politics, that prescription pits the health of the individual against the health of the nation.

He might have won had Mercedes not overruled his wish to stay out rather than pit for fresh tyres shortly before the red flag.