Sentence examples for had a standoff from inspiring English sources

"I resumed shooting while he and the plain-clothes intelligence officer had a standoff," she said.

While Adebolajo was in hospital he had a standoff with police.

A handful of arrests were made while the BBC offices went into lockdown as a few hundred protesters had a standoff with police.

But now, the white separatists have been run out of their compound well to the north, and there's a winery not far from where another extremist had a standoff with the federal government.

Last August, he and a group of civil-rights activists had a standoff in Hillsborough against several hundred Confederate flag supporters, who had arrived in town to protest the removal of Confederate symbols from public spaces.

So he remained at work and had a standoff with his boss.

Right now, we have a standoff on these fiscal issues.

And so we have a standoff of the kind that has cropped up again and again in poetry at least since the nineteen-twenties.

In one 2012 incident Swan threatened her and the children with an axe before fleeing to his mother's house and having a standoff with police.

He still loves a good niggle though, tracking Danny to his house to have a standoff about the wider implications of the cover-up.

Thus, in contrast to what is sometimes assumed, we do not simply have a standoff between two rival legal systems when we discuss Islamic and British law.