Sentence examples for kind of standoff from inspiring English sources

"So we really had a kind of standoff".

It was the kind of standoff repeated across the country since.

That kind of standoff becomes more likely if the two companies negotiating are rivals in the marketplace.

It was a curious kind of standoff: hundreds of protesters, with an audience of dozens of reporters, refusing to speak.

The rebels — perhaps as many as 1,000, commanded by a former colonel in Libya's army — brought with them enough of an arsenal to create a kind of standoff with the Malian Army.

The last time Congress had this kind of standoff, in August 2011, business confidence took a dive — and with it, Ms. Ozer said, went her clients' willingness to borrow money to hire and expand.

While it is still early, the tensions here could lead to the kind of ethnic standoff that has repeatedly arisen across the former Soviet Union.

Are we going to have to endure some kind of excruciating standoff between the two of them over several episodes, only to see them joyfully reconciled (over Mini-Den's twitching corpse?) at Christmas time?

The production ends with a kind of brooding, poignant standoff.

The dueling sides were sharing one podium, taking turns in a kind of marathon speech standoff that seemed to capture the entire spectrum of the American political scene.

Plans, blueprints and elevations come under attack from floating geometric shapes and calligraphic ink squiggles, in a kind of rational-gestural standoff.