Sentence examples for in standoffs from inspiring English sources

This could result in standoffs lasting many years.

More than a dozen have died as suicide bombers or in standoffs with police.

Anti-Qaddafi fighters also remained locked in standoffs with Qaddafi forces in his other two remaining bastions, Surt on the Mediterranean coast and Bani Walid in the desert south of Tripoli.

The deaths of Western separatists in standoffs with federal agents in the nineteen-nineties at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, show that there is no clear-cut white immunity.

The ministry "for Cults and Religion"—as it is actually called denies it.Their protests have culminated in standoffs between riot police and monks in saffron robes, which does nothing to boost the gambling industry's image.

Chinese patrol boats are currently involved in standoffs over territorial disputes with its neighbours in the South China Sea, and with Japan over disputed uninhabited islands north of Taiwan.

[C3.] Yukos and Russia Still in Standoff The Russian oil giant Yukos and the government continued a standoff over the fate of a controlling stake in the company.

But it is also studded with reminders that different moral and psychological issues can arise in "standoff" warfare: the launching of bombs and missiles from a safe distance.

1999 Russia and Nato forces in standoff at Pristina airport in Kosovo Russiaa earlier angered by Nato air strikes on Serbia.

An increase in fuel flow and reduction in standoff distance resulted in increased particle velocity but did not significantly affect particle temperature.

At both closer (2 in) and farther (48 in) standoff distances, the potency of the beam against the cloth declined and the burnthrough time went up significantly.