Sentence examples similar to a direct standoff from inspiring English sources

Since then, the government has adopted a strategy of acting with what one former FBI hostage negotiator called "infinite patience" in direct standoffs with domestic extremists.

In all cases, it was found that there is a direct relationship between standoff distance and deposition efficiency.

As a direct result of that exploration, many subsequent criminal/terrorist "standoffs" in which the FBI has been involved have been resolved peacefully and effectively.

A: The standoff involves complex issues.

David and the Mona Lisa are monuments to a competitive standoff as direct and public and frenzied as today's Turner prize.

"Bandits," directed by Barry Levinson, starts with a standoff, a robbery that has gone wrong.

Written by Mark Gatiss and directed by McGuigan, "The Great Game" ends with a cliffhanger in which Sherlock and Moriarty reach a standoff involving a bomb attached to a vest removed moments earlier from Watson.

A political standoff erupted.

A bizarre standoff ensues.

The result has been a tense standoff.

That deal defused a similar standoff.