The phrase "a violent standoff between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more parties are in a tense confrontation that involves aggression or hostility.
Example: "The police were called to the scene of a violent standoff between armed suspects and law enforcement."
Alternatives: "a fierce confrontation between" or "a brutal clash between".
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.
Analysts say there may soon be a violent standoff within the military between those who have defected and the significant portions of the army still under the president's control.
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.
Heavily armed rebels remain stationed outside the Yemeni president's house and the palace in Sanaa, despite a deal calling for their immediate withdrawal to end a violent standoff.
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.
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?
TAIZ, Yemen — This ancient city among the steep cliffs of central Yemen, once known as the commercial and intellectual hub of this south Arabian nation, has emerged as the violent center of a long political standoff between a president who refuses to step down and demonstrators who want him out.
