Sentence examples for showdown today from inspiring English sources

Attorney General Janet Reno and a House investigating committee approached a showdown today over whether she should ask for an independent counsel to prosecute campaign finance abuses.

North Carolina and the federal government mustered for a legal showdown today, in the battle over bathrooms and civil rights for LGBT people in the state.

But it rejected calls to suspend immediately 10 of the laws that have the strongest opposition, setting the stage for the showdown today.

(AP) THE AMERICAS MEXICO: SCHOOL SHOWDOWN The administration of the National Autonomous University of Mexico is headed for a showdown today with student strikers who have closed it down for nine months.

However, he is expected to win in the third round, as his Justice and Development party has a majority of seats in parliament.The European Commission and Poland head for a showdown today over the future of the Gdansk shipyards, the birthplace of Solidarity movement that helped overthrow communism in Poland.

But what Natasha Roetter, Erika Odlaug and Amber Trotter have in common is that each is undefeated this season and far ahead of the opposition, setting up a showdown today in the 23rd Foot Locker high school cross-country championships in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

North showdown next week.

The first Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament allowed for a second showdown this year.

The situation is quite different from the showdown earlier this year over the 2011 spending bills.

IG Metall, Germany's biggest blue-collar union, had a showdown last year in eastern Germany.

The Packers' win set up a showdown next week with Detroit for the N.F.C.