This was supposed to be a monumental Sunday in which the tone would be set for an eventual showdown in the National Football Conference championship game.

That decision sets up an eventual showdown with the Senate, which this week narrowly defeated an effort to delay the closings.

The battle of Poltava that depicts the eventual showdown between Mazeppa and the czarist forces is evoked in a driving symphonic sequence, complete with an onstage battalion of brass players.

Following the failure of the Gapsin Coup in Korea in December 1884, Japan began to look ahead to an eventual showdown with China.

It is as if they were clearing the stage for their eventual showdown.

The movie details their torment, escape and eventual showdown with the villain.

China's urgent need for industrial development to fight an eventual showdown with Japan also precipitated this progress.

Mr. Sadr's determination to challenge the authority of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's interim government might have made an eventual military showdown inevitable.

This led to an eventual showdown that resulted in publishers getting their way and switching to "agency model" pricing, which ultimately led to slightly higher prices for many e-books sold through the Kindle store.

Chosen for his compliance, Benson proved a wily bureaucrat who was more interested in preparing for an eventual showdown with Britain than an immediate one with Germany.