Greeting in Cornwall leads to new confrontation

Usage examples of showdown.

With the top-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions in town for a showdown with the Buckeyes, the entire city of Columbus awakened to thoughts of football.

KPD, egged on by the Comintern representatives, looked increasingly for a showdown with German capitalism.

Iraq had become very serious, creating the internal problems that prompted Saddam to threaten Kuwait in 1994, provoke a showdown with UNSCOM in 1995, attack Arbil, and then accept UNSCR 986 in 1996.

In a showdown between a brash youth and a cautious veteran, youth won out.

Vincent Lord had stayed on in Washington for an extra day and Celia had a showdown with him about his testimony the previous afternoon.

Thus, most reports after the showdown had Celia standing tall in two ways.

Hell, it had been over two months since the showdown with his trusted agent Asterial, Blue Witch of the Kudaan Wastes, and all it had done was have her trapped in a nether-hell with some nutty demon Boolean had cornered and coerced into service.

There was a showdown once when she gave an ornamental vase to a woman who had taken her a few bakings of bread.

When Canthus first joined the hounds of Tristan's pack, there had been a brief, snarling showdown with Angus.

Because, even though THL had in the sudden great showdown toppled the combined probe constellated out of the resources of its two immense opponents, the citizens of Terra had already been briefed fully, had already been exposed systematically to the entire truth—and nothing, short of planet-wide genocide, could reverse that.

Mason pointed out, "it may be that Dutton isn't afraid to face Hedley for a showdown, but he's planning to tell Desere the whole business and he doesn't want Hedley to know about Desere's financial affairs.

When you told me you suspected Alexias, that you intended to have a showdown with him, I panicked.

I'd bought time for us, but I hadn't bought much, and every day's run was bringing us nearer the showdown.

Nixon would like nothing better than to stampede the House of Representatives into a televised Yea or Nay showdown, based on charges no more serious than Contempt of Congress, Contempt of Court(s) and, by implication, the grossest kind of contempt for everybody in the country with an I.

For an answer to that, we can look to Hubert Humphrey -- from one of the nine speeches he made during his four-and-a-half hour campaign for Democratic candidate George McGovern in the waning weeks of last November's presidential showdown -- Humphrey was talking to a crowd of hardhats in S.