Sentence examples for faces a standoff from inspiring English sources
He also faces a standoff in Parliament, where the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party has moved to block almost every policy move.
If the results are confirmed, Egypt faces a standoff between the Brotherhood and the ruling military junta, which has been making an 11th-hour bid to seize back constitutional powers.
In recent months he has faced a standoff with students who organised mass sit-ins across the country to protest against his changes to university entry requirements, and youth unemployment in France is at 21.5%.
Skype also faces a potential standoff with the F.B.I.
Chief Wilkinson said he expects the police to use the new truck rarely, when the department's SWAT team faces an armed standoff or serves a warrant on someone believed to be dangerous.
Bill Clinton, a politician as gregarious as Obama is aloof, couldn't bridge that gap when he faced a similar standoff in 1995 and 1996.
It sees Jeremy Corbyn – now Prime Minister – facing a nuclear standoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin, set to a backdrop of a motorbike ride taken by Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott that supposedly really happened in East Germany in the 1970s.
Although the protests did not topple the government in the US-allied country as they did in neighboring Arab nations, the political leadership and opposition have faced a tense standoff ever since.
We seemingly face an intractable standoff on fiscal matters.
A lack of information on the motivation behind the attack makes it difficult to establish how Omar Ahmed Abdullah Ali would have reacted if faced with a standoff.
