Sentence examples for having a standoff from inspiring English sources

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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.

Thus, explains Suzanne Nossel, a former deputy to Washington's U.N. ambassador for management and reform, "when you have a standoff between the major veto-wielding players" — like Russia versus the United States on whether to give teeth to the new deal on Syria's chemical weapons — "the role of the secretary general is highly constrained".