Sentence examples for economic showdown from inspiring English sources

The president, having successfully confronted Republicans in Congress in the last economic showdown at the turn of the year, is looking for another win.

It is the first time Congress has met on New Year's Eve since 1995 when Washington was confronted by another Democratic-Republican economic showdown.

But Obama said earlier this month, after yet another economic showdown, he would not negotiate with the Republicans over the debt limit.

WASHINGTON — Avoiding an economic showdown with President Obama, the House on Wednesday passed legislation to eliminate the nation's statutory borrowing limit until May, without including the dollar-for-dollar spending cuts that Republicans once insisted would have to be part of any debt limit bill.

"If the clinic goes out of business, which is entirely possible, where will we go?" By late February or early March, lawmakers would face another economic showdown over raising the nation's borrowing limit again to avoid a cash-management crisis and a government shutdown.

B3 Congress and Business ECONOMIC SHOWDOWN -- Democrats in Congress headed toward a major confrontation with President Bush over tax and spending policy, vowing to defy his threat to veto legislation that provides more money to counter terrorism in the United States.

PAGE A19 China Bid as Political Test An $18.5 billion bid by a state-owned Chinese oil company to acquire Unocal may be as much a test of Chinese-American strategic and economic relations as a boardroom showdown.

If a showdown forces a severe economic downturn, each side will blame the other; ultimately, failure to act would hurt the party controlling the White House, they figure, and the political cycle points to Republican gains in 2014.

The Woolfs' vocational idealism is anchored in a straightforward economic argument, best illustrated by a showdown between Jeffrey and Kevin Costner that occurred at a golf tournament in the mid-1990's.

Recently, the House speaker, John Boehner, has ratcheted up economic uncertainty by pledging to force another showdown this year over legislation to raise the debt ceiling.

[Page C1.] The battle for Unocal is shaping into as much a test of Chinese-American strategic and economic relations as it is a boardroom showdown.