Sentence examples for avoid the standoff from inspiring English sources

But that statute, as the result of a compromise meant to avoid the standoff that led Mr. Obama to oppose the 2003 version, added language specifically stating that it should not be construed "to affect existing federal or state law regarding abortion" or "to alter generally accepted medical standards".

The ever voluble Johnson left in his wake the notion that he would still be a Jet if Bill Parcells were still in charge, and that the two sides came achingly close to negotiating a new deal in 1998 that would have avoided the standoff that prompted the trade.

A candidate must receive the votes of 22 of the 32 owners to become the next commissioner, and the league is hoping to avoid the protracted standoff that preceded the selection of Tagliabue in 1989.

A22 Bush Proposal on Budgets Gov. George W. Bush proposed an overhaul of the federal budget process to force earlier negotiations and avoid the annual standoffs between Congress and the president over tax policy and spending.

Criticizing Washington for what he termed "too much needless division," Gov. George W. Bush proposed a wide-ranging overhaul of the federal budget process today in an effort to avoid the bitter annual standoffs between Congress and the president over taxes and spending.

With the brothers trapped, Charles de Gaulle closed two runways to arrivals to avoid interfering in the standoff or endangering planes.

But due to a number of factors -- the crisis is unfolding in a remote part of Oregon; it doesn't appear to be a life-or-death situation; and there are no hostages involved -- law enforcement officials want to avoid unnecessarily escalating the standoff, the source said.

Despite the acrimony and fan anger that accompanied the standoff, the league has avoided the backlash that followed the 1998-99 lockout.

After avoiding consequences for the standoff, the Bundys picked another fight with the BLM in January 2016.

WASHINGTON -- Vermont Democratic Rep. Peter Welch is offering a simple way for Congress to avoid damaging standoffs over the nation's debt ceiling: agree to pay the bills before running them up.

Both countries appear eager to avoid a standoff that threatens to mar relations and, most immediately, to eclipse annual talks scheduled to begin in Beijing on Thursday.