Sentence examples for his standoff from inspiring English sources

The A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation of 57 labor unions, has strongly backed Mr. Obama in his standoff with the Republicans.

Marbury conceded that he nearly lost his trademark confidence during his standoff with the Knicks.

Looking to end his standoff with the integrity commission, the governor on Monday proposed to essentially legislate it out of existence by creating a new ethics oversight commission.

President Bush took a few hours out of his standoff with Saddam Hussein to return today to the state that arguably won him the presidency.

A few others recalled his less publicised involvement in the televised presidential debates of 1960, when he coached JFK ahead of his standoff with Richard Nixon.

His clashes with players over the years have inspired dark sagas that have run for weeks, sometimes months, on the back pages of the newspapers, the most memorable being his standoff with David Beckham, the poster boy of international soccer.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells January 5, 2016 Ammon Bundy, leader of a group of armed anti-government protesters occupying federal land in Oregon, espouses rhetoric that is similar to that of his father, who led his own standoff in 2014.

The second was his comeback from that defeat, culminating in his successful standoff with the Republicans over the budget, the passage of the welfare bill and his re-election in 1996.

Clinton, though, was more instinctively centrist than Obama is, and his revival owed much to other factors, particularly his leadership after the Oklahoma City bombing and his budget standoff with Gingrich during the partial government shutdown.

Feeling disrespected that he has been the subject of trade talks and offended by the Jets' public statements about his contract situation, Keyshawn Johnson pushed his tense standoff with the team to the brink yesterday by saying he was "dangerously close" to not wanting to play for the Jets anymore.

Then there is Robert Neinast of Pickerington, Ohio, and his Gandhiesque standoff on a vacation to Washington in the summer of 1999.