The most realistic scenario is now a three front war pitting Israel against Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Instead, Chen s futile effort to de Sinicize Taiwan created a wastefully divisive contentious society, pitting mainlanders and locals against each other.

A contest for China s soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other.

Next, a twelve man tag team match was to determine who would run both Raw and SmackDown , pitting teams representing Teddy Long and John Laurinaitis against each other.

Rapid change in China already has resulted in a battle of ideas, pitting the coasts and cities against the countryside and inland provinces, and the rich against the poor.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld even tried to use divide and rule tactics by pitting New Europe against the Old Europe led by France and Germany, which opposed the Iraq war.

Syria also states that closer examination of the degradation and pitting of the decoration reveals that columns and arches particularly in those areas sheltered from the rain appear to be more severely affected.

And that means that German leaders must portray the crisis not as a morality play pitting lazy, profligate southerners against hard working, frugal northerners, but as a crisis of interdependence in an economic (and nascent political) union.

The Italian War of 1542 46 was a conflict late in the Italian Wars, pitting Francis I of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII of England.

But Europeans ought not to be too arrogant, because, in recent years, that common European culture has itself proven to be fragile, particularly in light of the Bush administration s divide and rule strategy pitting Old Europe against New Europe.

How this controversy will end remains a mystery, for now. The debate continues, extending beyond the book and the story, pitting those who see it as part of Costa Rican tradition and identity against others who feel this particular tradition dehumanizes people of African descent.

What started as a revolution in the eighteenth century meaning of the term is becoming a reproduction of the religious wars that ravaged Europe from 1524 to 1648, pitting Catholics and Protestants against each other in the same way that Sunnis and Shia are pitted against each other today.

Gone is the simplistic view of a conflict pitting aspiring democrats against a grouchy dictator the familiar (though not entirely accurate) narrative of the Arab Spring. Would be democrats, freedom fighters, jihadists, Sunni extremists, and Al Qaeda elements all supported by Sunni Arab countries and groups, now man one side of the battle lines.