She shook her head at how "we've miniaturized the process in the United States Senate," no longer allowing lawmakers to shape or change legislation and turning every vote into a take-it-or-leave-it showdown intended to embarrass the opposition.
So I don't know if, in my mind, I'd call it a showdown, but I call it a different situation for both horses and, you know, one horse is going to beat the other.
"There was this attitude," Makiya said of the Shiite leaders, " 'This is a war, this is it — the showdown — why don't we just gird ourselves for it, why not recognize it as a war and fight it to win?
"We'll call it the Showdown in the Bronx," he said.
CNBC clearly knew it was onto ratings gold: not only could viewers hear traders gasping in the background, but CNBC quickly slapped a label on it: "Billionaire Showdown".
I won't call it a showdown because that implies a Prius stood a chance against a truck-sized ungulate with belligerent eyes.
In the summer of '86, it was a showdown and the crowd knew it.
It was great television, because it was a showdown between a journalist and a politician, but the days when a major figure on network television can pick that kind of fight, and openly state political opinions on prime time, are long gone.
It is too early, perhaps, to be drawing any conclusions from it, but a showdown between last season's Premiership finalists captures the imagination at Sandy Park on Suday afternoon.
GrandPrix.com expressed disbelief in the outcome: "It was a showdown so improbable that even Hollywood would not have made a film of it.
The director, Sam Sylvia Marc Maronn), glimpses something marketable in it — it's an archetypal showdown, an all-American mom versus a homewrecker.
