Sentence examples for nervous standoff from inspiring English sources

Local residents have smuggled in food to them amid a nervous standoff with the Russian military.

Today, 28,500 US soldiers and 655,000 from the South are still engaged in a nervous standoff with the North's army of 1.2 million.

To this day, almost two million troops, including 1.2 million from North Korea and 28,000 from the US, are engaged in a nervous standoff.

Thomas C. Schelling, whose pioneering work in game theory and understanding the "subtle tension … between conflict and cooperation" helped steady the Cold War's nervous nuclear standoff, died Dec. 13.

Global markets were mainly lower and the price of oil dropped as traders became nervous about the standoff in Washington, particularly over the debt ceiling.

There was a tense standoff on Galaa Street, as nervous officers, surrounded by small fires, faced an army of angry young men who hurled pieces of broken concrete.

"What if my husband has to go?" Vadim Ozovtsov, a retired electric engineer, said the standoff over Georgia, an American ally, made him nervous because it was not clear "what America will do next".

But with investors already nervous about the Federal Reserve's plan to start scaling back its stimulus program, another fiscal policy standoff could be more disruptive this time around.

Standoff ends.

The standoff continues today.

With a standoff.