Sentence examples for planned showdown from inspiring English sources

After a tense day of Congressional floor fights and angry exchanges, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, called off a planned showdown vote set for after midnight, but said he would convene the Senate at noon on Sunday for a vote an hour later.

An extraordinary 12 hours followed, as the prime minister became the first world leader to travel to the Tamil-dominated north since independence in 1948, before returning to the capital for a planned showdown with Rajapaksa.

One of the most significant effects of the Coral Sea battle was the loss of and to Yamamoto for his planned showdown with the American carriers at Midway (Shōhō was to have been employed at Midway in a tactical role supporting the Japanese invasion ground forces).

They are not a chronicle of lesbian attachment, but an insight into an unconventional author, argues Anne Chisholm Bernard Sumner and Gillian Gilbert reflect on Joy Division, Peter Hook and 30 years of chaos Activists cry foul as Republican-led legislatures plan showdown with US government over key provision of Voting Rights Act.

Postal Union leaders are planning a showdown with the government as they escalate their campaign of strike action at the Royal Mail this week.

Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist who is a visiting scholar at George Washington University, said the ministry's statement suggested that Syria's government was planning a showdown with protesters.

N.H.L. TO ACT ON COYOTES The N.H.L. is planning a showdown in court Thursday over the Phoenix Coyotes' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the proposed sale of the team to the BlackBerry boss Jim Balsillie.

There never was any extra "clear the air" showdown planned.

The French track star Marie-Jose Perec, who fled Sydney before her planned Olympic 400-meter showdown with Cathy Freeman, said today that fear overwhelmed her dream of a third Olympic gold medal and that she "cracked".

Reports citing reliable sources claimed that Diệm was planning a military showdown against the Buddhists.

In September 1952, Van Fleet submitted tentative offensive plans for Operation Showdown, a small-scale offensive drafted by the US IX Corps as a ridge-capturing operation.