Sentence examples for The ongoing standoff from inspiring English sources

The ongoing standoff is the result of years of political upheaval in the country, ostensibly a battle between North and South, rich and poor.

The ongoing standoff between Chinese police and the defiant residents of Wukan, a 20,000-person village about 200 kilometers northeast of Hong Kong, is nothing short of extraordinary.

I asked Abdulrahman what he thought about the ongoing standoff between Iran and the United States.

On this side of the Atlantic, however, the ongoing standoff between Washington and Havana served to obscure this reality for more than two decades.

The charges include conspiracy to interfere with a federal officer, the same charge lodged against two of Bundy's sons, Ammon and Ryan, for their role in the ongoing standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The Games opened with a spectacular ceremony and a full complement of 45 competing nations after Ukraine decided its athletes would remain in Sochi despite the ongoing standoff with Russia.

So it turned into this ongoing standoff between Irabu and the Japanese news media.

So the two ended their ongoing standoff and met for a common cause on The Colbert Report.

Dover has been the scene of an ongoing standoff between anti-fascists and rightwing groups led by a resurgent National Front, according to Duncan Cahill of Hope Not Hate, an anti-racist organisation.

Pakistan's request is an overtly political move in the context of an ongoing standoff with Afghanistan, which has long accused Pakistan of maintaining militant safe havens from where the Afghan Taliban are said to launch attacks against Afghan and U.S. forces.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov tendered his resignation Tuesday, as the country's opposition celebrated its first major victory in an ongoing standoff with the government.