Sentence examples for become a standoff from inspiring English sources

If Britain so chooses, this could become a standoff that could drag on for years.

When they arrived, one of the bombers had climbed to the roof, and the situation had become a standoff.

"I said, 'I'm going, too — I'm your partner.' " When they arrived, one of the bombers had climbed to the roof, and the situation had become a standoff.

What had seemed a conventional political marriage during Giuliani's first two campaigns had become a standoff between two camps sharing the Gracie Mansion roof.

Trading in C.D.O.'s has become a "standoff" said James L. Melcher, president of Balestra Capital, a New York-based hedge fund.

Military drones and police helicopters circle above the Shuar indigenous village of El Tink, an Amazonian community in Ecuador where a high-profile dispute against a Chinese copper mine has become a standoff and a siege.

But the conflict quickly became a standoff, with both sides mired in their trenches, wet and miserable.

It quickly became a standoff between those who want the focus to be on cutting emissions against those who think the right to develop economies must come first.

Others say the administration could have more effectively mediated between the Bahraini government and the largely Shiite protesters, and thereby avoided what has become a sectarian standoff in one of the world's most volatile places.

The pending sale of the Texas Rangers has become a deepening standoff between the owner of the team, who says he has lost enough money on the franchise and will keep a portion of the proceeds from its sale, and creditors, who say they stand to lose many millions even if his full amount is turned over to them.

Peaceful demonstrators sometimes still appear on Syria's streets, but it has become an armed standoff, as more and more men seek arms to fight back.