Sentence examples for a violent standoff from inspiring English sources

Every night, protesters march and clashes erupt, in a violent standoff that often seems a breath away from an explosion.

Early Friday morning, one of the two suspects was killed in a violent standoff with the police in Watertown, Mass.

But all those risks may be mitigated by the prestige of being asked to defuse a violent standoff on behalf of world powers.

Thursday's march, which was joined by trade unionists, ended in a violent standoff with police, who fired tear gas at the protesters.

As CODESA continued, the negotiations stalled, threatened at one point by a violent standoff, between police and a group of apartheid extremists, at the entrance of the building where the talks were in session.

The suicide of the other monk, Phuntsog, at the Kirti Monastery, in a nearby prefecture in Sichuan, set off a violent standoff between local residents and paramilitary police, who eventually detained 300 monks.

Now that Zelaya is back in the country, it should be obvious to all that Honduras' best exit from this crisis - before it devolves into a dangerous, potentially violent standoff in the capital - is a two-sided amnesty coupled with Zelaya's return to office for the next four months.

It ended with a five-day, eventually violent standoff between Panamanian marines and 35 North Korean crew members, armed largely with sticks, who were subdued and arrested while their captain, claiming he was having a heart attack, tried to commit suicide.

The two officers who died were killed during the violent standoff with police, whom militants met with gunfire and grenades.

In 1974, he dropped out of Antioch College to join the American Indian Movement, shortly after that radical group's seventy-one-day, at times violent standoff with federal and local law-enforcement agents at Wounded Knee — the infamous site of a massacre of Sioux men, women, and children by U.S. Army soldiers in 1890 — on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota.

Does the final violent standoff between the merpeople and the money-crazed, AK-wielding capitalists recall the documentary The Cove, or does it conjure images of mass executions?