It is politics as pugilism, joined by class and custom to the playing fields of Eton and the debating halls of Oxford, in which the main event is the showdown between the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister.
In December 1990 at a festival in Kingston billed as "The Greatest One-Night Reggae Show on Earth", Wailer was one of 40 bands billed, the main attraction being a showdown between ragamuffin DJ Shabba Ranks and his rival for title of King of Jamaican Music, aka.
At the showdown the main pot goes to the player with the best hand, and the side pot (or pots) go to best hand amongst the players who contributed.
But both the initial attempt to batter the ramparts of Damascus and the long struggle for Aleppo have given many commanders the sober sense that they had better obtain stronger weapons for any final showdown over the main government strongholds.
JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe's next election will be held on July 31, the country's longtime president, Robert G. Mugabe, announced in a presidential decree on Thursday, setting up a showdown with the main opposition party over whether credible elections can be organized in just six weeks.
President Clinton will visit Northern Ireland at a time when efforts to put the peace accord he helped broker into full effect are stalled and another showdown looms between the main factions.
It's clear early on we're going to have to wait for a direct showdown between the two main characters; the series is geared towards that as an endgame.
Near the end of the book, as Flynne rides with Wilf to a showdown with the story's main villains, she notes that "the interior of this car felt larger than the lounge in the Mercedes RV.
Heading into the showdown, Anscombe admits that his main concern is that Ulster scrum-half Ruan Piennar comes through this weekend's match unscathed.
Shortly after the airing of the episode, the proverbial kids organized an emo-versus-punk showdown at one of the main emo stomping grounds: the Glorieta de Insurgentes in Mexico City.
