Sentence examples for difficult standoff from inspiring English sources

Heath, Michonne, and the injured Redshirt are the only three to make it back to Alexandria alive after an excruciatingly difficult standoff with the entire herd of walkers and the three backed up against an extremely tall fence.

Hunt blamed the "difficult" junior doctors committee for the standoff.

James Carville, an architect of Bill Clinton's election in 1992, contended that politically it would be difficult for either side to prolong the standoff beyond the Florida Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 — Congress stumbled toward its August recess on a discordant note Friday as angry partisanship and distrust slowed the House and Senate in the latest example of the ideological standoff that has made progress difficult all year.

His friends insist the criticism is blatantly unfair, but with the government digging in for a long haul - months of parliamentary skirmishing, standoffs with the courts, and difficult negotiations with the Muslim community - the relationship will come under intense scrutiny.

How do you expect the United States-China standoff to end? A. It's difficult to say.

Even if the standoff is resolved this week, it may be difficult for the N.B.A. to start on time, with opening night scheduled for Nov. 1.

Even if Russia is "Parthia" rather than "Carthage," its standoff with the new Rome will be protracted, difficult -- and with uncertain outcomes.

Attempts to consolidate the strategic standoff with a treaty limiting offensive weapons proved more difficult.

Although discrepancies were found between the two, sources of errors intrinsic to both methods make it difficult to determine which of the two methods yielded the truest standoff distance.

It's maddeningly difficult to amend, which somehow pleases both sides, like a Cold War standoff.