Sentence examples for Economic standoff from inspiring English sources

President Obama is now expected to sign it on his return from the Middle East, averting another economic standoff between the White House and Congress.

And gas prices could rise another 50 cents a gallon or more, analysts say, if the diplomatic and economic standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions escalates into military conflict or there is some other major supply disruption.

In this reductive economic standoff, Scots are defined only by geographical residency, our identity dependent on resolving the currency problem, our future pegged on the dubious question of EU membership.

While Kim was in Beijing, negotiators from the United States were also in the city working on the next steps toward calming the economic standoff between the two nations.

The White House has ruled out using a legal veto to force Congress to extend the US debt limit as conservative Republicans threaten to take what the Treasury described as a potentially catastrophic economic standoff to the brink of a 17 October deadline.

Illinois' move is the latest in what has become a political and economic standoff over how Americans buy their drugs: the F.D.A. and drug companies contend that medications from other countries may be counterfeit, mislabeled or otherwise unsafe, while a growing number of local and state officials argue that their residents must be allowed to buy the least expensive drugs.

Nesvetailova said even before Russia's current economic crisis and standoff with the West, Putin had watched Europe warily for a number of years.

[C4.] Port Standoff Stirs Economic Fears After five months of negotiations over a contract, shippers and terminal operators said they had been forced to shut West Coast ports because of what they called a longshoremen's slowdown.

Greece is on the brink of economic collapse amid a standoff between international creditors and Tsipras' government on the terms of a new bailout deal.

However, the Islamic Republic could face more economic pain if the standoff remains unresolved, the official said ahead of the Feb. 26-27 meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity.

But over a rough and tumble first term chock-full of congressional standoffs and economic crises, hurt feelings and disappointments, the fever some young black professionals caught four years ago seems to have broken into mild support at best, downright apathy at worst.