Sentence examples for a standoff which from inspiring English sources

Rakim J. Willis, 25, was shot twice while standing outside a home on the south side of Columbus, Ohio, sparking a standoff which resulted in the arrest of Malachi Z. Lewis, 20.

But Wednesday's street battles were the worst yet between Morsi's supporters and opponents, who threw stones and petrol bombs at each other, stoking fears that a standoff which already has Egypt bitterly divided will grow more polarized and violent.

In what proved to be the last major engagement of the American Revolution in the north, the Continental Army fought the British to a standoff, which amounted to a political and morale-boosting triumph for Gen. George Washington.

An attempt early on Wednesday morning to storm the barricades around the square with thousands of riot police led to a prolonged standoff which ended when police withdrew again from the centre.

What ultimately took place was something rather milquetoast — Tillerson left with U.S.-Russian relations neither on the path to fairy-tale good will (what Trump's campaign promises led some in Moscow to daydream about) nor at a disconcerting standoff (which the Trump Administration's inconsistent, at times belligerent, rhetoric of recent days had led some to fear).

Concerns about Kurdish ambitions were a key factor in a detente agreed between Ankara and Moscow this month, after an eight-month standoff which followed the Turkish downing of a Russian fighter over northern Syria.

After an 11-day standoff, which they spent in a military hostel on Hainan island in southern China, the 21 men and 3 women were flown first to Guam aboard a commercial Continental airliner, in keeping with Chinese demands that no military plane be used.

But a continuation of the current standoff, which could include a build-up of US military hardware, is hardly in China's interests either.

A witness described the standoff, which lasted almost three hours before the police chief's retreat, as "frightening".

During a previous debt ceiling standoff, which ran from the fall of 1995 through the spring of 1996, the Fed considered offering loans to banks that did not receive expected payments from the government, and honoring defaulted Treasuries as collateral, according to Alan Blinder, who served as vice chairman of the board of governors at the time.

Based on the Peking opera about a People's Liberation Army/bandit standoff (which also inspired the Englishman's 1974 album), Hark's 3D epic has recovered from a fractionally under-par $25m opening to a very robust $110m take at the end of its first full week.