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Sentence Examples Trades unionist Brian Anderson helped organise a major lobby of councillors as they entered the Guildhall for last week's showdown. Liverpool fan Nolan is looking forward to a likely showdown with warhorse Mark Hughes, who has been used in a deeper role by Blackburn recently. The long-running saga of whether quarrying is to be permitted at an historic Peak District beauty spot is set for a final showdown. A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever. When Nick finds out that his girl is shacking with Morgan, he flips out and kidnaps her, forcing Morgan into a showdown at the local warehouse. Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States. It may have been an all-American showdown but there was only one American the crowd wanted to see in the final. In March 1644 the Royalists under Lord Hopton and the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller were heading for a showdown. Macken is hoping to see some action in Monday's potential showdown at Molineux, a ground where he has already tasted victory this season. The 34-year-old editor's public ridicule of the state's most senior judges has set the scene for an epic courtroom showdown on 22 July. You'll have to be careful though, because if you keep targeting one driver, he may challenge you to a showdown race to settle the score. The three were the best of friends at York and will no doubt enjoy sharing some liquid refreshment after tomorrow's showdown. Gwynnie's dad, Bruce, directed this sloppy, indifferent road flick about six battlers gathering in Omaha for a karaoke showdown. In these games the showdown is preceded by one or more periods of betting on who has the best combination of cards. The league is over and all thoughts must now turn to May 22 and a showdown with old rivals, Cork. Tomorrow, the showdown with Asafa Powell and the Yankee Boyz shall take place. He faces a showdown with his bitter rival Jeffrey Donaldson, who is calling on him to resign. Skipton's market traders could be heading for a showdown with the council over plans to hold a farmers' market once a month. Even the final showdown with the Green Goblin is premised as an ethical problem. Don't be surprised to hear the crowd cheering the American Michael Phelps when it comes to his showdown with the Thorpedo in the pool. Show More Sentences A director of the struggling rail operator Arriva is set for a showdown with fed-up train users next week. He believes that the RFU's attitude has made a showdown with Premier Rugby inevitable. David Beckham is already dreaming of a World Cup final showdown with his Old Trafford pal Juan Sebastian Veron. They are also gearing themselves up for a showdown with the board of directors as soon as the affair becomes public. They're now prepping for a showdown with some Representatives and the White House. It will be down to the likes of Neil Jenkins and Rob Howley to inject new life into the side ahead of their opening showdown with England. He makes friends with the staff and even becomes a bit of a legend after a dramatic showdown with Dixon. Both largely take place mostly in the spooky woods, and feature a shrill showdown with an evil witch. A York boy who risked other people's lives in a rooftop showdown with police was today starting a four-month sentence. Parents are gearing up for a showdown with education chiefs tonight over the future of a well-loved primary school. The family had to take part in four games and a final showdown with the Herdman family from Powys. As usual in a showdown, the opponent's cards are exposed first and then you show your cards if they are better. In a showdown, the winner will take the pot consisting of the small antes and the bets. In standard poker, if there are two highest equal hands in a showdown, the pot is split between them. Maybe you actually have the best hand and would win in a showdown right now. There is no concept of equalising the bets, and a showdown is not possible with more than two players. The final showdown between Keanu Reeves' Neo and Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith should have been the money shot of the whole trilogy. Meanwhile, the Lions lost again so now the Packers have a little breathing room heading into the Turkey Day showdown. If it turns out that all the players in the showdown have twos, they all lose and the pot is carried forward to the next deal. The few bits of action before the climactic showdown are quick and uninvolving. Show More Sentences On film, the battle of Helms Deep is an astonishing nightmare-scale bombardment, a cinematic showdown unlike anything ever witnessed before. After two careers spent battling each other in the top arenas of the world, this is the final showdown. Sean Lamont heads a quintet of wing specialists who are vying for position in the Stade de France showdown. The dispute is still thought likely to provoke a stormy, if not violent, showdown. I just watched a showdown on the lawn here between a brown buzzard and a large black-and-gray hooded crow. The final showdown takes place in the sinister cityscape, which still has its creepy visual charge. She leaned against the closed door and took three deep breaths before she too got ready for the big showdown. Among the more baffling parts of this showdown is why Madam Secretary would have invited such a comeuppance in the first place. In the rare case of the best hand consisting of community cards only, the pot is divided between all the players left in the pot at the showdown. The team actually starts winning, which leads inexorably to the final showdown against the formidable rivals. A bitter feud is threatening to overshadow Liverpool's Worthington Cup semi-final showdown with Sheffield United. Racers across Chippenham are busy practising their flipping skills this week in the run up to the town's annual pancake showdown on Tuesday. It's the big night, the showdown, what's being called the guy next door versus the guyliner. The two shows could face a showdown this autumn if BBC and ITV decide to challenge one another. Tonight, by contrast, it was as though he had prepped for the showdown by doing several lines of coke backstage. The final fifteen minutes in particular, which theoretically contain the showdown between Stray Cat and Hundred Eyes, is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery. England now face a quarter-final showdown with host nation Portugal. The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown. They lead armies into battle and are in training for the final showdown at Armageddon. The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death. Show More Sentences But when a final showdown occurs between a gang with gats and a group toting muskets and spear guns, it's clear that the filmmakers have lost their way. This latest regatta was especially important, because from now on, points count towards the final showdown when a winner is chosen to challenge Alinghi for the Cup. The Cochran-McDaniel face-off is the latest major establishment vs. Tea Party showdown in the Deep South. As the deadline looms, federal officials insist they'll do all they can to avert a showdown with the resisters, saying no one will be evicted without a court hearing. The debt-ceiling showdown, which threatened to send the country into default, kept us enthralled. Instead, it would set the stage for a massive showdown in February, when Republicans would control both the House and the Senate. A showdown with their domestic rivals will sustain them a bit longer. Regardless of how the showdown ends, it does serve a very clear signal of what the political climate will be in the next Congress. In some ways, however, the Ukraine showdown has placed pressure the White House to hold off on further angering the Russians. So this is showdown week in Congress for extension of unemployment benefits. The government threatened a showdown with Global Strategies Group, saying the London-based firm overstepped its powers when private guards shut the airport at dawn. The Mount Sion duo of goalkeeper Ian O'Regan and corner-forward Sean Ryan are the Waterford debutants in tomorrow's NHL showdown with champions Kilkenny at Nowlan Park. Any Sydneysider considering him or herself a racing fan will be at Warwick Farm next Saturday for the mouth-watering Apollo Stakes showdown between Sunline and Tie The Knot. The Thursday night showdown had the Princess of Poughkeepsie in one corner and The Staten Island Dump in the other. Despite a degree of reticence from some parts of the Aussie media, tickets for yesterday's showdown were harder to come by than a dunny in the bush. Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history. The last two were the main events, promising an epic showdown of lyrical skill. The jovial, comic book dramaturgy, featuring sudden changes of fortune and explosive showdown scenes, contributed to the immense success of this film. Dissatisfaction on the home front necessitates a showdown that ushers in a desired new order. He scarcely permitted himself the mild extravagance of a restrained fist pump, so determined was he to save all his emotional energy for the showdown with the Australians. Show More Sentences The touch-and-go showdown with the Luftwaffe is well chronicled in big-brush terms. There are seven players on the table. Five folded, the remaining two played heads-up until the showdown. In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw. As with Ray Reardon and his successor Steve Davis, there was to be no World Final showdown between once and future kings. A further rebuff by the court of appeal in July 2013 meant the prospect of a showdown at the Supreme Court. At a meeting on 25 November 1925 Grey, Maclean, Simon, Gladstone and Runciman urged Asquith to have a showdown with Lloyd George over money. Did you watch the showdown between The Mountain and the Red Viper? Surprisingly, Greenfield did not meet his Waterloo in this showdown with his competitors. Jim's plan was to still-hunt down the same heavily timbered ridge where he had the showdown with the big 5x5 a few days earlier. The crucial thing in this whole matter is the unscrupulous involvement of the Macedonian Hague Tribunal indictee in the daily political showdown. Meanwhile there are smashed garden gnomes and a heated showdown in the fairy-lit garden shed. There they were, kicking it with George Stephanopoulos, when Dowd burst out with this observation on the Shutdown Showdown. During a quarter-final showdown with Portugal the Czech Republic midfielder brilliantly, or flukily, lobbed the ball over Vitor Baia. It will also be a retail and fast-food showdown among promotional movie tie-in partners connected with these two movies and dozens more. Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown. Host nation England face a winor-bust Twickenham showdown against Australia this evening, with Wales' own World Cup fate hingeing on the outcome. We returned to the hotel to trick out our Duncan vests and mentally prepare for the showdown. This was the main issue of the general election in January 1910, setting the stage for a tremendous showdown, which Lloyd George and Churchill relished. The Bluegrass State showdown will take place at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL's Colts, which will be configured to hold 35,000 basketball fans. A competition giving youngsters aged 14 to 16 the chance to become a flag-bearer for a Millennium Stadium fixture of the global showdown is running in the capital on Saturday. Show More Sentences The most powerful of Hongwu's sons, Zhu Di, then the militarily mighty disagreed with this, and soon a political showdown erupted between him and his nephew Jianwen. First place Solo winners in each age division from each competition will qualify for the Showdown of Champions. He tries to act the part of a gunslinging Wild West hero to impress her, only to find himself facing a showdown with her notorious outlaw husband. Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is eyeing up a super-middleweight showdown with Joe Calzaghe, according to the American's promoter. The 38-year-old Scot guaranteed himself at least a silver by dispatching Aussie Aron Sherriff 21-15 in the semifinals to set up a showdown with Ryan Bester of Canada. Approach Showdown with an open mind and it's a polished, content-packed party game. Beckham was a substitute for Los Angeles on Thursday, and managed 22 minutes in their 1-1 draw with New York, a result that set up Sunday's showdown in the Windy City. But United's philosophy will never change and with Cluj needing to go for victory in a quest to reach the last 16, this Group H showdown at Old Trafford could be entertaining. Toy Machine, repped by a skeleton crew of Dirty Billy, Josh Harmony and Matt Benetar, took the big cheese at Van's Downtown Showdown over Labor Day weekend. And he came up short in the Sprint Showdown race for nonqualifiers earlier in the night, failing to finish high enough to advance to the main event. Examples from Classical Literature He shucked his windbreaker because it would be more encumbrance than help in the showdown. Say, Tex, honest Injun, would you 'a' fired off that dynamite if it had come to a showdown? Hope if it ever comes to a showdown the secretary of the bureau of commerce will agree with me. He wades right in for a showdown, an' nails Billy outside, before everybody, an' reads the riot act. A TEESSIDER has become the world Scrabble champion after winning an international showdown in London. If it comes to a showdown, we're goin' to tell what we know. But Vieira is confident he will be ready for the Villa Park showdown after a few days of rest. Based on the viability and quality of their ideas, two teams will be selected to face off in an intense two-day showdown. The soap showgirl showdown is a close-run thing between Corrie and Merseybeat's Tupele Dorgu and former Hollyoaker Ali Bastian as ingenue gunwoman Roxie Hart. And there's a lot happening for a herd of Guanaco, ancestors of the llama, with a birth, mating session and dramatic showdown with some rival males. Every fiscal showdown has redounded against the Republicans. The Showdown pits the top drivers from the two Grand National Divisions, the West Series and Busch East Series. Find more words! 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