Sentence examples for is a standoff from inspiring English sources

The area around Amariya al-Falluja is now said to be calm, but there is a standoff along the main road to Falluja to the north, which is controlled by IS, our correspondent says.

There is a standoff here.

So, for now, it is a standoff.

Right now, she said, there is a standoff in the market, with buyers expecting huge discounts and sellers resisting.

The controversy is a standoff between two men from two very different corners of this staggering city of 14 million people.

There is a standoff; Morales assures Singer that he loves him, and tells him about baboons, that lower males must let themselves be mounted by dominant males.

It was a standoff.

"There would have been a standoff.

"...There was a standoff at Joseph's Tomb.

Other than that, I think it was a standoff".

There was a standoff as Royal Navy vessels circled the ship.