India, meanwhile, learned the limits of armed confrontation after the last major standoff, in 2002, and has concentrated on building its economy.
The deal appeared to resolve the first major standoff since the midterm elections between the White House and newly empowered Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Instead, the issue of early retirement emerged as the unlikely battleground for the first major standoff between the governor and Republican legislators.
The attack, the worst in the territory in decades, quickly spiraled into a major standoff between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
The movement has developed into a major standoff, and there have been scenes of violence in the streets of the capital, Dhaka, home to 18 million people.
In the last major standoff over the debt ceiling, in 2011, the two sides agreed to paper over their inability to agree by creating a new committee to debate budget changes.
As one former staffer said, "The Daily Bruin staff was probably buying the most coffee". Chandler Harris, 80, editor in 1935, described a major standoff with UC officials over students' demand for an open forum to debate issues of the day, including alleged communist activities on campus.
However, with the twist in Turkish politics towards a religiously conservative government in 2000s and the increasing military aggression on the Palestinian community has strained this alliance, bringing two countries at the verge of major diplomatic standoffs.
"This was the first major hostage standoff of the cellphone age," Cullen notes.
The quick release of the sailors was in sharp contrast to an episode almost nine years ago, involving Britain, that turned into a major international standoff.
