Sentence examples for avoid a showdown from inspiring English sources
I walked into the patient's room, hoping to avoid a showdown.
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein may hope that is enough to avoid a showdown.
But they said it was up to Mr. Sadr to avoid a showdown by meeting American conditions.
In the interview at Palacio Quemado, Mr. Morales sounded as if he wanted to avoid a showdown.
To avoid a showdown, the Federal Trade Commission has said it wants the food and advertising industries to voluntarily accept changes.
And one cannot help think that the original Doc Holliday, known to gamble on occasion, and not one to avoid a showdown, would have approved.
Mr. Bolton said he hoped China and Russia would reconsider their opposition, avoiding a showdown vote.
The president has already signed into law an expansion of children's health care and a wage antidiscrimination law and avoided a showdown over bank bailout funds.
If the state Supreme Court had shown more caution, it might have avoided a showdown with the executive and legislative branches in Florida that judges may well lose.
Management has largely avoided a showdown, choosing to spend its political capital in other areas, including contract issues, according to current and former board officials.
After more than three hours of talking, senators began filtering out of the Old Senate Chamber, still without a path to avoiding a showdown on controversial rules changes.
