Sentence examples for impossible standoff from inspiring English sources

Somewhat stiff at first, Mr. Lithgow grows more persuasive as Jack's conflicted relationship with his father comes to light, forcing him to mediate in an impossible standoff.

An up-or-down House vote on the Senate measure presented many Republicans with a nearly impossible choice: to prolong the standoff that most Americans wished to see cease, or to vote to allow taxes to go up on wealthy Americans without any of the changes to spending and benefit programs they had fought for vigorously for the better part of two years.

What the hell do I care where they come from?" The duo even have an answer to the seemingly impossible question of how to resolve the political standoff.

These two passions came to a standoff in high school when a class schedule conflict made it impossible for me to take courses in both topics.

Standoff ends.

No standoff.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A political standoff erupted.

That standoff persists.

A standoff ensued.