Sentence examples for before a showdown from inspiring English sources
Atlanta should easily go to 3-0 before a showdown at Carolina next week.
The real trick is to squint with the lower lids only - think of the expression Clint Eastwood makes when assessing Lee Van Cleef before a showdown.
Two days before a showdown against No. 2 North Carolina (17-0), tHuskiesies lost the sharpshooter Caroline Doty to a knee sprain just before halftime.
Yet McNamara will surely hope to avoid a potentially bruising encounter with the Pacific islanders before a showdown with the Kiwis.
A 2009 study carried out by Cigital, a software consultancy, analysed 103m hands of one of the main varieties of poker, Texas Hold 'em, played at Pokerstars.com, and found that over 75% of them were decided before a showdown.
Yet, this week, as they prepared to face visiting St . Johns on Thursday night before a showdown with No. 5 North Carolina on Saturday, Calipari made sure his players understood the challenge.
But, above all, it was a personality contest over who could convey the most presidential stature while skewering his opponent, with a level of barely disguised animosity never seen before in such a showdown.
Before then, there is a showdown on 24 April in Pennsylvania, home state of and thus a must-win contest for the conservative former senator Rick Santorum.
The pair of court challenges are now teed up for a showdown before the nation's highest court, which may decide in the coming days whether to consider them.
What could feel more refreshing than a film in which a character approaches a microphone just before a climactic showdown and declares, "this is not a competition"?
During their travels, Hill and Walters are pursued by a mad vet (played by Bird), and come across pop band The Magic Numbers who have opened a B&B, before a climactic showdown at the top of Blackpool Tower.
