Sentence examples for before this standoff from inspiring English sources

The difference that the N.F.L. hoped nobody would notice before this standoff was settled was obvious.

If they emerge from this standoff with any sense that extortion works -- and it has before -- they will return to the same tactic again, and again, and again.

This standoff is hardly an aberration.

The resolution to this standoff remains precariously inconclusive.

But this standoff between both sides is helping neither.

Nor, he added, is this standoff like the fight a few months ago over the current year's spending, which ended with a late-night deal shortly before the government would have shut down.

If this standoff continues, then, regardless of what happens over the next couple of weeks, it is probably only a matter of time before Greece defaults on some of its obligations.