Sentence examples for failed standoff from inspiring English sources

This is not his first "handbag war" – he also had a failed standoff over Gucci with rival French businessman François Pinault.

These experiments failed, and a standoff ensued -- television asking for films, the studios stubbornly refusing.

In the next hour Fox's "Standoff" failed to capitalize on the "House" lead-in and garnered a series-low 7.9 million viewers.

They failed to resolve a standoff over Austria's insistence that Turkey be offered less than full membership in the accession talks.

But on that Wednesday, the morning after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had failed to resolve a standoff over new construction in East Jerusalem with Mr. Obama in White House talks, the major discussion topic was the Middle East.

Cross-party cooperation in Northern Ireland has come under fresh strain as emergency talks aimed at preventing the collapse of the power-sharing executive failed to resolve a standoff over welfare cuts.

A bilateral meeting on Monday failed to resolve the standoff, and troops from both sides remained camped at the ancient Hindu temple, Preah Vihear, that perches on a cliff dividing the two nations.

At a press conference early Friday, Dallas police chief David Brown read from Johnson's statements to police during failed negotiations amid a standoff in a parking garage at El Centro College.

In their sixth round of talks, the current and former prime ministers failed to solve a political standoff, leaving Parliament unable to convene two months after elections.

China's attempt failed despite three weeks of standoff between the students in the Square and its sympathetic, conscript army.

Mr Hussain offers a valuable but depressing reprise of the recent and failed diplomatic efforts to end the standoff between the two countries.