Sentence examples for a new standoff from inspiring English sources

A Senate defeat would leave Congress at a new standoff.

That is something that could lead to a new standoff with the nation's lawyers.

Washington and Moscow are engaged in a new standoff over Syria, and this time it has gone beyond words.

The nation's top court annulled constitutional changes adopted during mass protests in 2006, opening the door to a new standoff between Parliament and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

It was not supposed to be about Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank and a new standoff between Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat.

They are angry and fearful of a new standoff that could stymie ambitious programs to dredge most of the ports' 240 miles of channels and prepare for an expected increase in cargo over the next two years.

A new series, "Standoff," about a romance between two F.B.I. hostage negotiators, benefited from the "House" lead-in and handily bested its competitors, although it garnered an unimpressive 66percentt retention of adults 18 to 49.

"They're not seeking a new superpower standoff around the world," Hackard said.

The dispersal of the camp and the new standoff in the evening were the latest developments in the action-and-reaction volley between the authorities and a loose coalition of opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin.

Re "G.O.P. Pledges New Standoff on Debt Limit" (front page, May 16) and "Mr. Boehner and the Debt" (editorial, May 16): Speaker John A. Boehner and the Republican Party continue to attempt to solve federal budgetary problems through more spending cuts with no tax increases under consideration.

The new standoff also demonstrated the Kremlin's lingering frustration over NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders and with the treaties negotiated in the 1990s when Russia, still staggering through its post-Soviet woes, was much weaker and less assertive on the world stage than it is today.