1 The scene was set for the final showdown.

2 The President is preparing for a showdown with his advisers over his plans to reform the economy.

3 Management are facing a showdown with union members today.

4 I'd like to avoid a showdown with my boss if I possibly can.

5 He was now strong enough to force a showdown with them.

6 The council is heading for a showdown over the new proposals.

7 Britain has a World Cup showdown with Australia next month.

8 The Prime Minister is preparing for a showdown with Ministers.

9 Fans gathered outside the stadium for the final showdown .

10 Lord Macdonald's compromise solution avoided a constitutional showdown.

11 Suddenly, the local strike escalated into a national showdown.

12 I leave Embassy, elated at this showdown.

13 I felt it was necessary to have a showdown.

14 Leading Actress in a Musical A showdown between legends.

15 The showdown between Rosecrans and Bragg finally came in mid-September.

16 The pair agreed to a second showdown in San Diego on Oct. 16.

17 Components Bureau have rescheduled their league showdown with Powerhouse, postponed in controversial circumstances last month, for 23 February in Whitburn.

18 If the government does lose the showdown, it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later.

19 In part two: Showdown: Soccer's big guns prepare for a shootout.

20 The showdown came when the Andover people helped impose a ban on prostitution.

21 Millions of dollars were spent on lawyers in a courtroom showdown between the two companies.

22 Of course I'll support you if it comes to a showdown.

23 She was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.

24 The Tories' period of opposition was partly spent contemplating a future showdown with the miners.

25 Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown.

26 Everyone in the office knew that there would be a showdown sooner or later,[] the way things were going.

27 Odd things have been happening to the Republicans in Congress since their disastrous showdown with the president over the budget.

28 Then this young actor walks in he's nude too - for the showdown.

29 He told himself that all men were cowards when it came to a showdown with a woman.

30 Behind the scenes Pilger, still fuming from the Kennedy Hotel showdown, was working separately.

1 The scene was set for the final showdown.

2 The President is preparing for a showdown with his advisers over his plans to reform the economy.

31 Whatever the line-ups, we're all set for Sunday's showdown at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

32 If Vitor imagined she was going to demand an immediate showdown with the model, he was wrong.

33 Copier cowboys face showdown GOVERNMENT watchdogs will tomorrow be asked to get tough with photocopier cowboys.

34 Now that the election was over, he added, the president was determined to have a final showdown with the isolationists.

35 Then, in a showdown with Clinton last winter, Congress refused to compromise over its seven-year plan to balance the budget.

36 Both eased their way to victory over Yorkshire and Surrey to set up a final day showdown.

37 The showdown between a district attorney and a Houston Chronicle reporter who refuses to reveal her sources moves into federal court Monday.

38 So you must expect one last showdown that's followed by a decisive step in a new direction.

39 A sequence of events since last spring made a showdown over these issues almost inevitable, analysts contend.

40 The Senate moved toward another showdown with the President over the budget.

41 Pe rec's 400m showdown with local darling Cathy Freeman would have provided one of the highlights of the Games.

42 He would have preferred a showdown with Gina, but it was fun to watch Eleanor fighting her by stealth.

43 Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral.

44 But the new President, in spite of his doubts about Soviet motives, did not rush towards a showdown with Stalin.

45 It is doubtful that Nasser sought a military showdown.

46 We may have to force a showdown.

47 Last carcharias showdown with the big cuttlefish survived.

48 He told him that he had three days to hightail it or there'd turn into a showdown.

49 I think that gave him the courage to make a move during a boring zero-zero showdown between the Dallas someones and the Chicago something elses.

50 Their title showdown took place in an ill-fated Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

51 If the government did what Clinton did,()[] it would force a showdown with the pan-democrats using the citizenry as its bargaining counter.

52 Jose Mourinho has held showdown talks with Roman Abramovich's right-hand man Eugene Tenenbaum over the futures of Chelsea stars Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko.

53 We predicted here in December that a strictly private merger dance between two Anglo-Australian miners would soon flower into a sovereign wealth showdown of historic proportions.

54 It would mean a showdown - almost certainly irreversible and final - between them both.

55 A separate showdown is also under way: a high-stakes slugfest pitting euro zone leaders and their competing visions of the currency union against each other.

56 The playmaker led France a showdown against Italy, scoring against Spain and Portugal on the way.

57 Showdown in the Subterranean Online only Hun is revealed to be behind the mutant attack.

58 Earth had prepared for a showdown, building the greatest armada of all time.

59 It's like complaining that in a western, you knew right from the beginning that the bad gunslinger and the good guy would have a showdown at the end.

60 After a three-day siege, the hair-raising showdown on Nov. 29 led to the death of the remaining militants, albeit at significant human cost.

61 Jones had a showdown with his boss regarding his resignation.

62 What you are do not see, what you see is your showdown.

63 So far the showdown with the unions has been prompted cock-up than conspiracy.

64 It would have been understandable, if not forgivable, had David Cameron ducked a showdown with Leviathan.

65 The win at Fenerbahce laid any thoughts of an Istanbul hoodoo to rest which left the Rossoneri facing a showdown against the Bundesliga side at the San Siro.

66 Eight teams from the world's top business schools and universities wait at round tables( ), ready for a showdown of their esoteric wine knowledge and tastebud skills.

67 The showdown is always at the climax of cowboy - western movies.

68 Pro-establishment candidates largely boycotted the by-election, leaving opposition lawmakers without the electoral showdown they had sought.

69 He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.

70 A showdown in Istanbul between Arsenal and Barcelona would certainly be a final to salivate.

71 If it came to a showdown, you could deny this conversation ever happened.

72 The init() function will read all the files in the posts folder and format them as HTML using the Showdown JS library, which is a JavaScript port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool.

73 That set up yet another Celtics-Lakers showdown, but with a new twist-a clash of the titans, with Chamberlain going up against old nemesis Bill Russell.

74 Ninja showdown between, defeat an opponent is the hope of survival, combat bar!

75 Jones had a showdown with his boss regarding his vacation.

76 Jordan Guariglia of Jersey City, New Jersey, struggles in his arm wrestling match during the Strong-Arm Showdown in New York, November 17, 2005.

77 De La Hoya, whom Pacquiao sent into retirement with an eighth round TKO in their showdown, is regarded as the PPV king with his bout against Mayweather Jr. chalking a record 2.5 million buys.

78 Mourinho was already having to rejig his side for the semi - final second - leg showdown at Anfield.

79 Didier Deschamps believes Juventus can pull away at the top after tonight's promotion showdown with Piacenza.