Sentence examples for decisive showdown from inspiring English sources

What is clear is that this potentially decisive showdown began when and where it did because of serious lapses in the American military command structure in Iraq.

That brief, decisive showdown, followed by elections last year that preserved the balance of power narrowly in favour of the pro-Western majority, focused political minds on the need to compromise.

The generals led some of their forces across the Hudson River at Dobbs Ferry and Kings Ferryy (now Verplanck Point), to Yorktown, Va., for the war's decisive showdown with Lord Cornwallis's army.

Instead of electrifying the organisation, California's 7 June primary, a final and potentially decisive showdown between Trump and his GOP rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich, appeared to frazzle it.

Pocock suffered a fractured eye socket in Australia's 39-28 defeat in Brisbane and will be sidelined for six weeks, robbing the Wallabies of their most influential player for the potentially decisive showdown at AAMI Park.

Challenging established centers of power on various fronts, he pushed for civilian control over the military, and in a decisive showdown fired his ambitious security minister, Gen. Wiranto, who led the military during a time of atrocities in East Timor in 1999.

A near 30,000 crowd at Letzigrund stadium can look forward to some decisive showdowns.

But if we define showdown as a decisive confrontation, then at least one half of the fight's moniker was entirely apt.

Marshall is summoned to the Battle of Naseby, the decisive 1645 showdown between Royalists and Parliamentarians.

The parliamentary showdown was a decisive moment in the ongoing struggle between reformist and conservative forces.

Of course, if one side gets a decisive lead, then the final showdown — if they decide to play it — will be a dead rubber.