Sentence examples for In standoff with from inspiring English sources

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.

A24 Farmer in Standoff With Police A disgruntled tobacco farmer who claimed to have explosives kept scores of police at bay for a second day from his tractor in a pond on the National Mall, shutting down three federal buildings and snarling rush-hour traffic in the center of the capital.

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

Anti-Qaddafi fighters also remained locked in standoffs with Qaddafi forces in his other two remaining bastions, Surt on the Mediterranean coast and Bani Walid in the desert south of Tripoli.

The deaths of Western separatists in standoffs with federal agents in the nineteen-nineties at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, show that there is no clear-cut white immunity.

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

A14 Israeli soldiers fired thousands of rounds into an old British police station in Hebron in a standoff with suspected Palestinian militants.

Democrats, meanwhile, have not shown any willingness to give ground, apparently betting that Republicans will be held responsible for a shutdown as they were in 1995 in a standoff with the Clinton administration.

In May, for example, a military veteran engaged in a standoff with police in Houston managed to fire off 212 shots from an AR-15 before a SWAT sniper killed him.

And in Louisiana, lawmakers in the Republican-controlled State Leginlature are in a standoff with their party colleague Gov. Bobby Jindal as they struggle with a $1.6 billion shortfall.

This resulted in a standoff with police in which McGee leaped onto the hood of a car and snapped pictures with his cell-phone camera.