Sentence examples for big standoff from inspiring English sources

The idea caused immediate comparisons to the ill-fated "super committee" that formed a key part of the solution to the last big standoff over the debt limit, in the summer of 2011.

A democratic uprising became a civil war, got hijacked by Islamists, was abandoned by the west, and became a bargaining piece in a bigger standoff with Putin's Russia.

Russia has branded the new government illegitimate and has annexed Ukraine's Crimea region, citing threats to its Russian-speaking majority - a move that has sparked the biggest standoff between Moscow and the West since the end of the Cold War.

One of the biggest standoffs was over Sabrina's mother, who ABC assumed would be dead.

What followed was a great standoff.

Films like The Last Stand, and Stoker are a litmus test of international filmmakers; they are their first American films, and they use standard genre stories: the disgraced sheriff in a big time standoff in a small town, and a young woman who comes of age amongst grownup sexuality and brutality.

In this political season of negative campaigning and big spending, the standoff between Mr. Kessman and Mr. Conkey could be one of the most inexpensive and civil in the country.

During a week of turmoil on the global stock markets, the energy sector played out a drama that could have even bigger consequences: a standoff between the US and the Opec oil-producing nations.

So far, the Kaesong complex is the biggest casualty in the standoff that developed after North Korea's nuclear test in February.

A big sticking point is the standoff between theater owners and Hollywood studios over who will pay to update the nation's 35,000 projection booths.

Two of Mr. Clinton's biggest achievements flowed from that standoff.