Sentence examples for public duel from inspiring English sources

For their next act, the Mets will stage a public duel, cap pistols at 10 paces, between Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday.

He challenged one of his most blood-drenched henchmen to a public duel in Belgrade and squared up to a still more grisly Serb supremacist in the street.

He was forced to abandon the investment, at one point worth as much as $1.2 billion, after engaging in a highly public duel with Mr. Icahn for control of the company.

But if he agrees to a public duel with the first minister, going back on his own contention that this is a discussion for the Scottish people, he will be painted as meddling in affairs in which he has no ultimate say, or at least no vote.

The tall, quietly spoken American has spent the last 24 hours in a public duel with compatriots George Gillett and Tom Hicks for control of Liverpool Football Club and needs to escape the suffocation of battle for a couple of minutes.

Desperate to kill Maximus and to restore his own standing, Commodus arranges a public duel between them both.

The almost nightly public duels between Boris and Ken – there, I've let slip their names – are mere slapstick, Punch & Judy, for the entertainment of the masses.

With a barbecue grill smoking on a sidewalk, Biggie participated in his first public rap duel during an impromptu block party at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Quincy Street.

Maybe somewhere there are still adults who identify with the cowboy heroes of yore, but for the most part the public gun duel in the dusty street has been replaced by two stealthy bullets in the back of the head.

She is leaving after a remarkable transformation and amid uncharacteristic stumbles by Mayor Rahm Emanuel over library hours as the Missile and the crucial public employees' union duel like Somali warlords.

The affair soured and the woman went public, taking aim in another duel of sorts.