Sentence examples for historic standoff from inspiring English sources
This historic standoff lasted 737 days.
It would represent a historic compromise after a 12-year standoff that has at times threatened to provoke a new conflict in the Middle East.
The strategy is a stark reversal from 2011, when the new House Republican majority pushed a partisan debt standoff that led to a historic downgrade in the nation's credit rating.
Indeed, in the 24 hours before S&P took its historic decision, there was something of a Mexican standoff between the ratings agency and the White House, as the two sides argued fiercely over its logic.
Iran has promised to make drastic cuts to its nuclear programme in return for the gradual lifting of sanctions as part of a historic breakthrough in Lausanne that could end a 13-year nuclear standoff.
WASHINGTON ― The standoff over Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was headed for a historic end Thursday, with Democrats prepared to filibuster President Donald Trump's court pick and Republicans ready to execute a "nuclear option" rules change to break the blockade.
In 2009, China claimed a historic right to control nearly ninety per cent of the South China Sea; in a standoff in 2012, it compelled the Philippines to cede disputed territory.
MANILA — The police in Malaysia were in a standoff late Thursday with at least 80 militiamen from the Philippines who were seeking to stay by right of historic claims on the island of Borneo, the police said.
