Sentence examples for In standoff from inspiring English sources

But it is also studded with reminders that different moral and psychological issues can arise in "standoff" warfare: the launching of bombs and missiles from a safe distance.

[C3.] Yukos and Russia Still in Standoff The Russian oil giant Yukos and the government continued a standoff over the fate of a controlling stake in the company.

(The Shuttle can't go beyond a near-Earth orbit; nukes would be deployed in standoff explosions to nudge the asteroid, rather than in subsurface blasts that would send smithereens everywhere; and oil drillers wouldn't... well, it's pretty clear).

B3 Officer Is Hurt in Standoff A man slashed his wife to death with a sword in the Bronx and then charged at two officers who came to his door, the police said.

B1 Mayor in Standoff With Bank The city's effort to persuade Bear , Stearns & Companyto keep 1,500 employees in Brooklyn has turned into a standoff with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who is refusing the investment bank's demand for a new round of tax breaks as it mulls a proposal from its current landlord.

Zero combat casualties in the 78-day air war against Yugoslavia in 1999 led a number of people to believe that the United States would from now on engage only in standoff wars, with its servicemen well out of the range of enemy fire.

This could result in standoffs lasting many years.

More than a dozen have died as suicide bombers or in standoffs with police.

Chinese patrol boats are currently involved in standoffs over territorial disputes with its neighbours in the South China Sea, and with Japan over disputed uninhabited islands north of Taiwan.

He led many protests, several of them in Manama, putting him in standoffs with security forces.

A homeowner who shot an intruder refused to surrender to police, resulting in a standoff in Puebla, Colo., Wednesday morning.