Sentence examples for The present standoff from inspiring English sources

The present standoff leaves the politicians with a headache.

No one can say what further impulse common European policies will take from the present standoff.

To those who have followed the two leaders' turbulent lives, the present standoff parallels the confrontation they had 20 years ago in Beirut.

But the goal of "zero centrifuges operating in Iran, permanently or temporarily" is unrealistic, and has contributed greatly to the present standoff.

But part of the reason the present standoff has arisen comes from the fact that there are actually a number of routes through Ukraine that the gas can take.

More likely, in the near term (and, one devoutly hopes, more likely than either of the unacceptables), is a continuation of the present anxious standoff, a miniature Cold War that alternates between periods of greater and lesser tension — a diplomatic version of Zeno's Paradox, with Iran edging ever closer to a bomb but never quite building and testing one.

Thucydides' injunction against military infirmity applies to the present-day standoff in the Taiwan Strait, where military parity between the People's Republic of China and the island of Taiwan--the bedrock of political equality--is swiftly eroding in favor of China.

Pleasantville depicts the beginnings of the present implacable ideological standoff in US politics, in short-hand "the culture wars", in which an African-American could become president, but around half the population and a large part of the political establishment were revulsed by the result.