Sentence examples for a standoff against from inspiring English sources

Mr. Abayat, who spent more than five weeks in a standoff against Israeli guns, could soon be in battle again.

Will the South Korean people allow its government to blindly follow U.S. plans to draw its country in a standoff against China?

The summer war, Lipman said, was seen as "a standoff against America, with the Russians victorious, as the Americans were unable to defend their client and ally".

The voting for a committee to supervise future elections stood as an unlikely grace note marking the peaceful denouement of a standoff against heavily armed security personnel that in many Chinese villages would have ended violently.

He and his advisers, known as Team Anna, had triumphed in a standoff against India's political establishment after Parliament on Saturday had capitulated to his key demand for creating an independent agency to fight official corruption, known as the Lokpal.

A former convict with a history of mental illness, hunted in a shooting spree that took four lives, maintained a standoff against the police today, crackling the air with warning gunfire as he held three hostages in this tense suburban neighborhood.

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The scholar, Zvi C. Koren, a professor specializing in the analytical chemistry of ancient colorants, says he has identified the first known physical sample of tekhelet in a tiny, 2,000-year-old patch of dyed fabric recovered from Masada, King Herod's Judean Desert fortress, later the site of a mass suicide by Jewish zealots after a long standoff against the Romans.

Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who led a 2014 standoff against the BLM and is the father of Ammon, has also refused to pay his fees and owes the government more than $1m.

Adam Nagourney's in-depth profile of Cliven Bundy in the New York Times has liberals crowing and many conservatives scrambling to distance themselves from the Nevada rancher who recently led an armed standoff against government agents.

Last August, he and a group of civil-rights activists had a standoff in Hillsborough against several hundred Confederate flag supporters, who had arrived in town to protest the removal of Confederate symbols from public spaces.