Sentence examples for gripping encounter from inspiring English sources

The U.S., in a gripping encounter with Belgium, succumbed 2 1 in overtime after an impressive performance, with goalkeeper Tim Howard pulling off a record 16 saves.

With his conviction overturned, you could argue he didn't need to, but it made a troubling, gripping encounter all the same.

The 20,000 arena was less than a third full but this did not diminish the players' commitment, with the opening match a gripping encounter as United Singhs beat Punjab Thunder by 68 points to 61.

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh EH4, from 15 December until 8 September 2013 Flame and Water Pots This free exhibition of ancient ceramics is a gripping encounter with prehistoric Japan.

Higgins avoided being the eighth champion to get knocked out in the first round after clawing his way to victory in a gripping encounter.

The spirited fightback in a gripping Griffin Park encounter could prove crucial in the Championship promotion run-in and means the Bees are two points clear of seventh-placed Ipswich, who lost against Huddersfield.

He is playing with passion and confidence, and he could test Federer in this gripping fourth-round encounter.

But for 90 minutes this gripping Premier League encounter was dominated by another goalkeeper, with Tim Krul making the impossible seem possible at times and almost single-handedly inspiring Newcastle United to victory.

There is a gripping account of encounters, rivalries and betrayals among the partisans, and another of the oddly humane Italian detention camp where the prisoners were held before the Gestapo deported them.

It has been several years since the Senate chamber was the scene of drama as gripping as the brief encounter over the rules that took place yesterday between Lyndon Johnson and what the press has taken to calling the "bipartisan liberals," a group whose effort to end the filibuster have been stoutly supported (though rather feebly articulated) by the Vice-President.

It also includes gripping accounts of two encounters with evil.