Sentence examples for as standoffs from inspiring English sources

MUMBAI, India -- Indian commandos rescued some hostages in raids on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier had swept into Mumbai, India's commercial capital, in a shocking series of coordinated and bloody attacks.

Those missiles are in a class of weapons described as "standoff," meaning they can be launched from a safe distance against ground targets.

Known primarily as standoff weapons and observation platforms used in the so-called war on terrorism, drones also had been utilized for several nonmilitary applications, most notably in the areas of law enforcement and wildlife monitoring.

The microstructure of the coatings shifted from lamellar to spherical in nature as standoff distance (SOD) increased.

The CAS is an XML and represents the results of processing as standoff annotations related to the TIPSTER and ATLAS approaches as already discussed.

Connect as many standoffs as possible, but never use any extra standoffs.

Talking involved just as many unpleasant standoffs as reasonable compromises.

Your motherboard should come with its own standoffs as well that you can use.

MOSCOW -- As armed standoffs persisted in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin tightened the economic screws on his impoverished neighbor Wednesday by warning that Ukraine may have to pay in advance for its gas imports from Russia.

The alert system phone in Mr. Chamberlain's apartment recorded most of the standoff, as did a security camera in the hall.

On Russian television they are invariably presented as a standoff, with Russian imposed sanctions portrayed as being equally punishing on Russia's opponents and precipitating diplomatic requests from Europe and the United States that they be eased.