Sentence examples for facing a standoff from inspiring English sources

It also said he was "facing a standoff with MPs".

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.

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.

Skype also faces a potential standoff with the F.B.I.

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.

I just faced such a standoff with the built-in shelving unit in my great room.

US lawmakers, facing a potentially calamitous government default in just days, held votes that highlighted their intense partisan divide and did little to end a torturous political standoff.

Occupier Kenneth Medenbach, the first man arrested in connection with the standoff in January, is facing an additional charge of stealing government property.