Sentence examples for be a standoff from inspiring English sources

It also remained possible that there might be a standoff between the courts and the executive branch in Florida.

Still, the decision to subpoena Ms. O'Brien sets up what could be a standoff with lawmakers, who are demanding answers about how more than $1 billion in customer money disappeared from MF Global.

It would seem to be a standoff without much of a gap, certainly not one yawning enough that a few phone calls and calm conversations could not bridge it.

"If that's not going to work," he said, "you have to put everything you can on the table and say, 'How do we maximize the assets we've got?"' Mr. Bronner acknowledged that there appeared to be a standoff.

The Republican race is looking more and more like it will be a standoff between Cruz and Trump as primary voting rapidly approaches, and many Republican lawmakers are making it clear whose side they're on.

He said that he might reconsider if it stopped raining, and that he planned to carry on DUI's mission, but it was apparent that there was not going to be a standoff of Clockwork Orange proportions between the Klan and local gangbangers.

It was a standoff.

"There would have been a standoff.

There is a standoff here.

So, for now, it is a standoff.

"...There was a standoff at Joseph's Tomb.