Sentence examples for border standoff from inspiring English sources

"Deepened diplomatic engagement with China finally ended the 21-day border standoff in eastern Ladakh on Sunday, with both armies agreeing to simultaneously pull out of the site and go back to pre-April 15 positions," the article said.

"You must remember we are in a state of war," he said, referring to the unresolved border standoff with Ethiopia, which in recent months has drawn thousands of troops from each side.

Becoming available to English readers at a time when the media are daily reporting Turkey's potentially ominous border standoff with Syria, Silent House usefully illuminates the recent historical pressures on one combatant.

Secretary Powell flew into Afghanistan on a C-17 Globemaster transport plane on his way from Pakistan to India on a mission to help defuse tensions in those countries' monthlong border standoff over a deadly attack on the Indian Parliament that India blamed on Pakistani extremist groups.

The latest incident follows heightened tension between the regional heavyweights, following a border standoff in June that lasted 73 days.

But a border standoff between the world's two most populous nations recently devolved into hand-to-hand combat and stone-throwing high in the Himalayas.

Here are five of the most contentious border standoffs on the planet.

Hundreds of refugees have forced their way through a barricade into Croatia after a desperate standoff with border police.

A16 India and Pakistan Step Back India and Pakistan are, in an undertaking almost as mammoth as preparing for war, getting ready to pull hundreds of thousands of troops back from their border after a prolonged standoff.

Cover image: The U.S. Capitol is seen as a shutdown affecting parts of the federal government appeared no closer to ending, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats locked in a hardening standoff over border wall money, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018.

The bombing on Monday came hours after the Iraqi government announced an agreement to relocate 3,400 Iranian dissidents living at a camp inside Iraq's borders, potentially unwinding a standoff between Iraq and the camp's residents.