Sentence examples for break the standoff from inspiring English sources

The fuel-economy credits could break the standoff, Mr. Leonard said.

Ira Gershwin, another émigré from Depression-devastated Broadway, was called in to break the standoff; he liked the melody, so Harburg set it.

Neubauer's group, which has sent a letter to Selig urging him to break the standoff, said a stadium could be built with taxpayers covering less than one-third of the cost.

The health secretary then tried to break the standoff by suggesting another candidate with personal links to David Cameron for the role – putting forward a name that had not been on the earlier shortlist.

Residents of Wukan village in Guandong province have blocked the road with trees and cars, established a rota of tree-top lookouts and put in place a warning system in case the authorities try to break the standoff.

An intervention is needed to break the standoff between employers and the economy.

Finally, Newman, the Nets' old reliable, broke the standoff, hitting a jump shot 3 14 into the second quarter to tie the score at 24-24.

After the arrests, the number of protesters grew again in the afternoon but the police held back and hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Portland, breaking the standoff, The A.P. said.

Both men had come here to discuss ways of breaking the standoff at the behest of President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped guide Central America out of its cold war conflicts.

But after the tortured bodies of two men who had recently disappeared — including a local politician from the Sloviansk area — were discovered on Tuesday amid a string of abductions, Ukrainian officials seemed more determined to break the prolonged standoff.

George Clooney, below, is offering some proposals aimed at breaking the negotiating standoff between the Screen Actors Guild and movie and television production companies: among them, annual pay reviews to be personally overseen by stars like Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson and a substantial increase in the dues that high-earning actors pay the union.