Sentence examples for a growing showdown from inspiring English sources

The decision will intensify a growing showdown between the commission and Paris over concerns that France is increasingly skewing markets and industries for domestic political and commercial ends Go to Article from The Telegraph ».

Here is a central venue for the showdown between growing populist sentiments versus the historic campaign for enhanced European integration.

"This road map goes straight to hell"."This road map goes straight to hell"The looming clashes over the outposts could well grow into a terminal showdown between Mr Sharon and the two parties of the far right that sit in his cabinet.

The fact that the rejection was not directly from a higher-ranking cabinet official suggests that Tokyo may hope to prevent the apology demand from growing into another diplomatic showdown.

For most of the Bundys' far-right allies, though, the showdown in Nevada wasn't as much about the rancher and his land as it was a flashpoint in their growing beef with the federal government.

The shootings grew out of a showdown two nights earlier when black students tried to integrate the nearby All-Star Bowling Lanes, whose white owner refused to let them play, a position that came to draw support from many white people in town.

After their showdown at SXSW in March (which was a pretty even fight), Foursquare appears to be growing more quickly (they did a million check-ins on July 3) and now has more funding ($21 million versus just over $10 million for Gowalla).

For Google, a more limited deal would also be a setback, but would most likely be worth pursuing if it averted a showdown with regulators over the company's growing power.

It puts the two parties on a path to a succession of showdowns over the deficit and the nation's growing debt.

— Arthur May, a laid-off computer programmer in this proudly liberal suburb of Boston, has been watching the showdown over the federal debt ceiling with growing revulsion — aimed mostly at Republicans.

When his power had grown sufficiently for him to risk a final showdown with the formidable Tatars, he first defeated them in battle and then slaughtered all those taller than the height of a cart axle.