Sentence examples for more standoff from inspiring English sources

For this reason, when firing a HESH charge, an M40 crew requires even more standoff than normal to ensure its safety.

"In a perfect world, you'd have facilities in different places with more standoff," Col. Gemeinhardt said, using a term that refers to the distance between a building and the street.

But the more intriguing standoff came on the 47th lap, as the teammates Hamilton and Button freely challenged each other for the lead without any interference from the team's strategists.

In retrospect, the Kennedys may have been able to deal so steadily with the crisis in Alabama because of the lessons they had learned from the earlier, far more dangerous standoff in the Caribbean.

With 54 delegates at stake and the emotional significance of battling in President Obama's home state, pundits and analysts predict the Illinois will host a more contentious standoff than in previous years.

But during more recent standoffs in 2005 and 2006, Professor Liu found no evidence of any risk premium.

It is a mutual dependence that at times seems more like a standoff: Russia has the gas; Ukraine has the pipes.

(The timing of the funding is staggered, so for each month that goes by without a resolution to the standoff, more state programs will run out of money).

Even more than the standoff over raising the federal debt ceiling, the stock market's plunge was caused by increasing fears that the economy has lost its momentum and could even be on the verge of another recession.

But pessimistic observers note that the last shutdown stretched on much longer, from Dec. 15, 1995, to Jan . 6 , 1996and they say the current standoff more closely resembles that imbroglio than the one- and two-day shutdowns of the 1980s.

Granted, it felt more like a standoff as the Palestinians waited to see whether Israel would either reciprocate by loosening restrictions on their movement or nudge Palestinian fighters back into action with another assassination.