1.   As a result, the non-ring scenes turn into a melange of dramatic emotional showdowns.

2.   But if they sound chastened about loose language, they refuse to rule out discussion of the possibility of dramatic showdowns between morality and the political order.

3.   Ignored in the original settlement between cigarette makers and state attorneys generals, they have become key characters in the dramatic showdown between the tobacco industry and Congress.

4.   In Decembers past, late-season Saturday and holiday games matched contenders in dramatic showdowns.

5.   It sits in limbo while a dramatic showdown over its fate takes place in Washington, Beijing and Hollywood.

6.   Now the aging warrior, who battled federal regulators with the same crusading intensity he brought to his war on pornography, faces another dramatic showdown.

7.   The aging warrior, who battled federal regulators with the same crusading intensity he brought to his war on pornography, now faces another dramatic showdown.

8.   To wrap it all up in a dramatic showdown, Herskovitz proposes a trial scene that even John Grisham would be too embarrassed to write, we hope.

9.   The justices peppered the lawyers with questions, then disappeared quietly into their chambers, clearing the stage for the next dramatic legal showdown.