Sentence examples similar to continuing stand from inspiring English sources

For Mr Obama there is a new foreign-policy headache, further complicated by the continuing stand-off with Iran over its nuclear programme.

The border has remained shut since 1993, part of the continuing stand-off over Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian region of neighbouring Azerbaijan, in which Ankara supports Baku.

Yet these troubles are also a useful reminder that the continuing stand-off between the west and Russia over who gets to influence Ukraine will not have a merely abstract effect.

The prospect of losing a bank's headquarters still knocks national regulators into a defensive tizzy.John Leonard, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, envisages a continuing stand-off between banks across national borders until the last pairing-up is done at home.

Despite world leaders committing themselves to defeating Isis, the way forward in Iraq and Syria appeared as unclear as ever amid the continuing stand-off between the US and Russia and fresh evidence that the self-declared "caliphate" is attracting ever greater numbers of foreign recruits.

Coventry has confirmed in the Australian press that Pietersen's continuing stand-off with England has alerted a number of Big Bash franchises, with the Sydney Sixers now thought to be the main rivals to the Renegades for Pietersen's services, although Brisbane Heat have also expressed interest in the past.

Kenya's leading newspapers give extensive coverage to the continuing stand-off at an upmarket shopping centre in Nairobi, in which dozens of people died.

Kenyan television channel KTN said as many as six officers had died in the continuing stand-off.

But one of the most telling things is the thousands of people who have worked with him who continue stand by his side".

If it continues, stand up for yourself.

Even so, a deal would be far better than continued stand-off.