Sentence examples for a huge standoff from inspiring English sources

Violence count Another beating for Arya, one First Man sacrificed to create the White Walkers, a huge standoff between the Children of the Forest and the White Walkers culminating in a fiery explosion, the end of the Three Eyed Raven and the death of Hodor.

Of course, at the most emotionally wrenching moment in this father-daughter standoff, a huge oil pump rolled in and kicked into action.

A seven-year standoff over a huge commercial development that threatened New York City's water supply has been all but settled with a new agreement that would permanently protect sensitive lands while providing an economic transfusion to an area of New York State that could use one.

But even if the immediate hostage crisis is resolved without bloodshed, as negotiators insist it eventually will be, the standoff is taking a huge psychic and economic toll on a nation that most of the rest of the world, when it thinks about Fiji at all, tends to view as Eden on the South Seas.

The messy standoff has been a huge headache for the U.S., which is a major diplomatic partner to both sides.

While it didn't get much attention in the mainstream press last year, a court's decision that police don't have a right to throw away people's possessions (a ruling that the Supreme Court let stand) was a huge win in a 30-year standoff between homeless and pro-gentrification policing in LA's Skid Row.

Without White House involvement, the standoff is likely to remain a huge battle.

The standoff sets up an unusual clash between two sides who can each claim a huge following on Wall Street.

"The standoff sets up an unusual clash between two sides who can each claim a huge following on Wall Street," DealBook's Michael J. de la Merced writes.

The standoff continued through the 1950s, and in 1958 Greyhound proposed using its block for a huge $10 million terminal, about half as big as Penn Station.

The two sides should end the standoff and work out a solution to the tribe's housing shortage that stops short of adding a huge and disconnected new tract to the reservation.