Sentence examples for the first showdown from inspiring English sources

The first showdown was in December 2010.

The first showdown between the two is fierce.

The first showdown on the student bill will come in a procedural vote on Tuesday.

December's Supreme Court ruling supported his case, which resulted in the first showdown between the judiciary and the legislature.

In all likelihood, the first showdown will come over the Keystone XL pipeline, an issue on which the Republicans rightly sense indecision in the White House.

On the eve of the first showdown vote on expiring Bush-era tax cuts, it's the Democrats who appear to be splintering.

The differences in the Gore and Bradley operations here underscore the degree to which the candidates have made preparations for the brisk march to the nomination after the first showdowns in Iowa on Jan . 24and in New Hampshire a week later.

In July 1948, the Republican presidential nominee, Thomas Dewey, met in Washington with two top advisers, John Foster Dulles and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to decide what stance their party should take on one of the first showdowns of the cold war: the Soviet blockade of Berlin.

The second showdown will come a few weeks later, when the Treasury Department, which helps fund other branches of government by issuing tens of billions of dollars of new debt every month, reaches its current borrowing limit.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The second showdown will come a few weeks later, when the Treasury Department, which helps fund other branches of government by issuing tens of billions of dollars of new debt every month, reaches its current borrowing limit.

The South Carolina primary is the fourth showdown of the fight for the Democratic nomination: Mr. Obama won the first, the Iowa caucuses, where Mrs. Clinton came in third, but she rebounded and won the next two contests, in New Hampshire and last Saturday in Nevada.