Sentence examples similar to high stakes standoff from inspiring English sources

Administration officials often point out that the damage from the high-stakes standoff has already begun.

A group of squatters vowed to take their high-stakes standoff with the police and bailiffs into Christmas Day after protestors scaled the balcony of a five-story Victorian building in central London.

The high-stakes standoff left 70% of the Los Angeles TV market in the lurch, without access to most Dodger regular-season games. .

Timothy White's "Catch a Fire," published in 1983, remains the gateway biography for the Marley-curious in part because it reads like a novel, full of high-stakes standoffs and tense dialogue.

The current high stakes political standoff over the debt ceiling and America's budget deficit is a fraud.

In a high-stakes standoff with the euro zone governments, the collateral card was the closest he had to an ace.

The president is now engaged in a high-stakes standoff with Indonesia's most prominent general, Wiranto, who has refused his demand to resign as coordinating minister for security affairs.

They have instead led the country into a high-stakes standoff with the other 18 Eurozone nations, which have cut emergency cash infusions to Greek banks, prompting their temporary closure and a suspension of stock trading.

The police findings will significantly ratchet up pressure in the already high-stakes standoff between Russia and Britain, which has seen the British government slap sanctions on Moscow for what Prime Minister Theresa May called "an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom".

Hopes of budging the high-stakes diplomatic standoff from impasse have been raised by the conciliatory words of Iran's recently inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani.

High stakes entailed high risks.