In Asia, it goes against management at least once in half the annual meeting showdowns.
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They are just as much a part of the game as Sunday and Monday night showdowns.
That uncertainty has spiked dramatically since the start of the budget showdowns in 2011.
The race was the first of what will be a series of showdowns in the sprints between the U.S. and Jamaica.
But the matches are short and sweet, with the best showdowns featuring momentum swinging reversals in the blink of an eye.
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The leadership of both parties seems keen to avoid any melodramatic showdowns.
The upcoming negotiations are complicated by lingering fiscal issues from past showdowns.
Even some senior Republicans are only lukewarm supporters at best, and GOP leaders shunned the measure in two prior debt showdowns with Obama.
It's perhaps the fairest way to pick a winner in showdowns like the bigmouth battle between shock-jocks Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.
It was the latest in a series of fiscal showdowns that already caused an unprecedented downgrade in the U.S. credit rating earlier in the year.
Sneddon triumphed after 10 weeks of hothouse training and live weekly showdowns to wander off with a recording contract and at least a year of celebrity living.
Yo, Corey Dade, you've been writing about these political showdowns.
Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most monstrous showdowns ever conceived.
Clinton has been successful in previous showdowns with congressional Republicans.
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And in both cases, Dallas had a chance to advance to the playoffs by winning their last regular season game in divisional showdowns (Giants in 2011, Redskins in 2012).
Conflict resolution didn't exist as a field when Dr. Spock reigned, but a generation of scholars has introduced new techniques to resolve showdowns, from nuclear-arms pacts to general strikes.
Owners and players in both professional football and basketball are digging in and letting the rhetoric fly as they posture and position for favorable terms in their impending labor showdowns.
And when you throw in the fluctuations of eight or nine opponents' cards--including no-limit showdowns in which two or more players have very strong hands--the luck factor becomes practically decisive.
Despite some of the best players in the game crumbling under the pressure of facing Woods in previous final-day showdowns for a title, Yang kept his cool to clinch the win.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
McEvoy knows all about taking part in sporting showdowns Down Under, having won the Melbourne Cup in 2000 on Brew, and once being aboard a winner owned by Australia's cricket captain Ricky Ponting.
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Austin aides have their focus groups too, and they claim the vice president's aggressiveness only rankles, reminding voters of the ugly noises from the past four or five years in Washington, the showdowns and shutdowns.
With both sides sticking to deeply entrenched positions, the night of competing messages signaled continued partisan division and political showdowns in Washington over the federal budget and further steps to reduce the deficit and national debt.
Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell won their first Ryder Cup match before the rippled turned into a wave of royal blue as the Europeans continued secured wire-to-wire victories in five of the six Sunday showdowns as the tables turned at Celtic Manor.
The most compelling argument for the solution is that while it seems both risky and bonkers it is less risky and bonkers than a continued series of showdowns over the debt limit, any one of which might send America into recession or worse.
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Ambling with the bluesman's toothache in his heel, he describes "cities of the plague, " plots surprise showdowns in which he slaughters sleeping opponents, ponders craven human nature ("They will tear your mind away from contemplation") and scans the skies for hints of geopolitical turmoil.
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