Sentence examples for negotiating standoff from inspiring English sources

George Clooney, below, is offering some proposals aimed at breaking the negotiating standoff between the Screen Actors Guild and movie and television production companies: among them, annual pay reviews to be personally overseen by stars like Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson and a substantial increase in the dues that high-earning actors pay the union.

Negotiating the standoff was "a depleting nightmare" for Nuha.

In 2011, after a tense standoff while negotiating over raising the debt limit, Obama vowed never to do that again.

Israel refused to negotiate, and a standoff ensued for 20 hours, captivating a global audience watching on television.

Israel refused to negotiate, and a standoff ensued for 20 hours as a global audience watched on television.

Israel refused to negotiate and a standoff ensued for 20 hours, while static television images of an empty balcony on a gray, modern dormitory transfixed the world.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) -- Forced to take hostages after a botched bank heist, bisexual loser Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) and his none-too-bright accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), negotiate a tense standoff with Police Captain Moretti (Charles Durning) over the course of a sweltering New York City afternoon.

AP reported that the official also said the government was trying to enlist the help of tribal elders among Algerian Tuaregs, who are believed to have close ties with the Islamist militants linked to al-Qaida, in possibly negotiating and end to the standoff.

The leaders of the two factions were in the midst of negotiating an end to the standoff when two Patriot militiamen were seized by Loyalists outside the stockade.

Netanyahu met with President Obama at the White House on Monday, when the two leaders discussed the prospects for negotiating a resolution of the nuclear standoff with Iran.

President Bush's "final diplomatic effort" has nothing to do with negotiating a peaceful solution to the standoff with Iraq and everything to do with seeking political cover for his rush to war.