Sentence examples for showdown of a from inspiring English sources

This showdown of a show is an occasionally bristling, more often absent-minded standoff — no Ali vs. Frazier, though similar in its even match of antithetical styles.

Observers see the election as the last showdown of a dynastic rivalry between the families of Kenyatta, 55, and Odinga, 72, that has lasted more than half a century.

The primary elections in California on June 7 will, mercifully, be the final showdown of a torrid, endless presidential nominating season.

It's a shame, then, that the latter stages of the movie let us off the hook, settling for the contrivances and showdowns of a standard thriller; the setup seemed both more potent and more plausible when it was allowed to simmer.

Then came the Trenton Fruit Showdown of 2003, a legislative battle for most-favored-fruit status between supporters of the renowned Jersey tomato and those of the highbush blueberry.

It is a showdown of scions in a race that has already attracted some of the most prominent names in the American aristocracy.

In a congressional showdown of man vs. machine, Holt, a five-time "Jeopardy!" winner and nuclear physicist himself, defeated the computer with a score of $8,600.

An early song-and-dance number that starts off like a showdown out of a Sergio Leone movie and somersaults into what can only be described as slapstick Brecht is nothing short of phenomenal.

Neither Carpenter nor his counterpart Yovani Gallardo arrived with his best stuff, and a game that was supposed to be a duel between a pair of aces turned into a showdown of relievers instead.

Before the split Baidu threw down a marker, releasing a provocative, if unsubtle, video ad featuring a Chinese kung fu warrior and a mustachioed Westerner with a clutch of pretty women in a showdown of tongue twisters.

Pebble Beach is as much a society gathering as a showdown of restorations.