Sentence examples for direct standoffs from inspiring English sources

Since then, the government has adopted a strategy of acting with what one former FBI hostage negotiator called "infinite patience" in direct standoffs with domestic extremists.

But even that would be a victory of sorts, pushing the country into a direct standoff with its people, and forcing its ruling class to decide between authoritarianism and economic success.

In all cases, it was found that there is a direct relationship between standoff distance and deposition efficiency.

On Monday, Mrs. Merkel made a direct reference to the standoff at the barricades during a visit to the Kosovar capital, Pristina, where she met briefly with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

David and the Mona Lisa are monuments to a competitive standoff as direct and public and frenzied as today's Turner prize.

The B-52 has the capacity to "loiter" for extended periods over (or even well outside) the battlefield, and deliver precision standoff and direct fire munitions.

A real solution to the standoff, he said, requires direct, bilateral negotiations between the United States and North Korea.

Speaking in Beijing on Saturday, Mr. Tillerson said he was trying to cool the bellicose rhetoric over the standoff but skirted any direct criticism of Mr. Trump.

The United States is prepared to hold direct talks with Iran amid the standoff over its nuclear ambitions, the US vice-president, Joe Biden, has said.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak left no doubt that Kiev was also no longer paying attention to Moscow's denials of providing the rebels with direct military support in the worst diplomatic standoff with the West since the Cold War.

As a direct result of that exploration, many subsequent criminal/terrorist "standoffs" in which the FBI has been involved have been resolved peacefully and effectively.