Sentence examples for a classic standoff from inspiring English sources
As bargaining showdowns go, this has the feel of a classic standoff.
But the motivation is similar; it's a classic standoff between states' rights and federal legal supremacy over state law.
As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff over climate change.
Although the number of strikers is not large, the Domino dispute has turned into a classic labor standoff between a blue-collar work force intent on defending the protections and benefits it took decades to gain and a company that insists it needs to cut costs to remain competitive.
The Domino dispute was a classic labor standoff, pitting a few hundred tenacious workers, eager to hold on to the benefits and protections they had won over decades, against Tate & Lyle, the multinational company that acquired Domino in 1988 and was intent on cutting costs and workers to keep an aging refinery competitive.
With the family drama subject to a tug of war between two countries without diplomatic relations, positions are hardening into a classic cold-war standoff.
Sam Farina, a former Rochester, New York, deputy police chief and the president of the New York Association of Hostage Negotiators, said that the standoff on Capitol Hill presented a classic stalemate.
Although the Battle of the Marne was a classic battle of maneuver, the Western Front that emerged in its wake in northern France was the largest and most terrible standoff in history.
A classic play in a classic production.
A: The standoff involves complex issues.
