Sentence examples for a violent showdown from inspiring English sources

One possibility is that Mr Hariri's murder represents the opening shot in a violent showdown.

The senators walked out that day, Aug. 6, gloomy and convinced that a violent showdown was looming.

A third that rival troops were moving towards the capital for a violent showdown with the bloodstained 27th army.

The palace and the military government — working through former Prime Minister Ali Amini — had struck a deal with Shariatmadari to avoid a violent showdown.

The day after Sander was unable to get medical help, another decision would similarly set the course for a violent showdown.

In a violent showdown when Jenny was 17, Rose's threats led her to flee without a trace and stay away for a decade.

The second attraction of the theater will be one of Shakespeare's darkest tragedies, "Macbeth," in which regicide leads to an epic and violent showdown.

The UN's statement followed a speech from Gaddafi in which he set the stage for a violent, final showdown by urging loyalists to take to the streets to fight "greasy rats" in the pay of enemies ranging from the US to al-Qaida.

This results in a violent, bloody showdown — dominated by the machine gun — in which Pike and his men are killed, along with many of the Mexicans and Germans.

These included the gradual militarization of even small local departments, which began to use SWAT team-style tactics more regularly, as well as a tougher response to political protests in light of the violent showdown between police and protesters at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

The violent showdown between them is arguably the most Bond-like sequence in this novel.