Sentence examples for be a stand off from inspiring English sources
Working for GameSpot as Editorial Director until 2007, Gerstmann, GameSpot and its parent company CNET was involved in a controversial incident when Gerstmann was fired for what was later revealed to be a stand off between GameSpot's editorial and management teams.
The state denies the charge, so today's meeting is likely to be a stand-off.
He made light of any claims that he may have an agenda against the rapper however, saying: "Between Kanye and I, it'd probably be a stand-off but Kim (Kardashian, West's wife), would probably take me down".
Too often, London fashion week can appear to be a stand-off between young designers competing over who can show the daftest clothes in the draughtiest and most badly lit venue and an old guard whose shows can have a frustrating lack of ambition.
The worst-case scenario would be a stand-off where most songwriters will sign up to the society that's most efficient and pays the best, while broadcasters will go to the societies that have the cheapest licenses, who by then will have very few licences to "sell".
"This could be a stand-off situation".
For the time being, there's a stand-off.
At this stage it's a stand-off.
Other nations disagree, and there is a stand-off.
It was a stand-off based entirely on the understanding of mutually assured destruction.
