Sentence examples for armed showdown from inspiring English sources
The American bid to capture or kill Mr. Sadr, who has led a widespread insurrection against American authority, moved a step closer to a possible armed showdown with the dispatch of a rapid deployment force to Najaf, a city 110 miles south of Baghdad that is sacred to Iraq's majority Shiite population.
If you put it that way, each of the WikiLeaks documents — from an account of an armed showdown between the Afghan police and the Afghan Army, to a few lines about a local interdiction official taking seventy-five-dollar bribes, to a sad exchange about an aid scam involving orphans — is a pixel in a picture that does, indeed, contradict official accounts of the war, and rather drastically so.
If you put it that way, each of the WikiLeaks documents from an account of an armed showdown between the Afghan police and the Afghan Army, to a few lines about a local interdiction official taking seventy-five-dollar bribes, to a sad exchange about an aid scam involving orphans is a pixel in a picture that does, indeed, contradict official accounts of the war, and rather drastically so.
Texas gun activists stage an armed showdown at SXSW.
In the process, when Brown is arrested for harboring undocumented immigrants in his barn, the novel unfolds into a series of interchanging narratives that range from a modern-day Huckleberry Finn tale of innocence to do the right thing to a veritable armed showdown between an overwhelmed sheriff and an unwitting "evangelical sanctuary" movement of sorts.
Sterling Hayden played a whaler looking to avenge his father's death; the final showdown has him armed with a harpoon.
Fifer's film captures Kidu smack in the middle of the battle over Paga Hill, including in a dramatic showdown between heavily armed police officers and the squatters.
The party's ruling council has scheduled a showdown meeting next Saturday in Belfast to challenge his decision to re-enter the government with Sinn Fein, the political ally of the I.R.A., while the clandestine guerrilla group remains armed.
Manning brings his arm into an N.F.C. showdown with the Packers on Sunday night.
In October, the MAK Center, the Los Angeles arm of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, presented Showdown, a fashion show featuring designs by artists, architects and fashion designers, at the center, a house designed by Rudolf Schindler.
America's failed Bay of Pigs invasion was followed by a renewed showdown in Berlin, arms buildups on both sides, more testing of megaton H-bombs, and then Nikita Khrushchev's secret decision to put intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida, an act that moved the world closer to annihilation than at any moment before or since.
